Historical
11 1 Who they were that seduced the people of Israel. 5 Against these he prophesieth, showing them how they shall be dispersed abroad. 19 The renewing of the heart cometh of God. 21 He threateneth them that lean unto their own counsels.
1 Moreover, the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the East gate of the Lord’s house, which lieth Eastward, and behold, at the entry of the gate were five and twenty men: among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, the princes of the people.
2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that imagine mischief, and devise wicked counsel in this city.
3 For they say, [a]It is not near, let us build houses: this city is the [b]caldron, and we be the flesh.
4 Therefore prophesy against them, son of man, prophesy.
5 And the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak, Thus saith the Lord, O ye house of Israel, this have ye said, and I know that which riseth up of your minds.
6 Many have ye murdered in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.
7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, They that ye have slain, and have laid in the midst of it, they are [c]the flesh, and this city is the caldron, but I will bring you forth of the midst of it.
8 Ye have feared the sword, and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord God.
9 And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into [d]the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
10 Ye shall fall by the sword, and I will judge you in the border of [e]Israel, and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
11 This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof, but I will judge you in the border of Israel.
12 And ye shall know that I am the Lord: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.
13 ¶ And when I prophesied, Pelatiah the son of [f]Benaiah died: then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord God, wilt thou then utterly destroy all the remnant of Israel?
14 Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
15 Son of man, thy [g]brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel, wholly are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Depart ye far from the Lord: for the land is given us in possession.
16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God, Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little [h]Sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.
17 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God, I will gather you again from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the idols thereof, and all the abominations thereof from thence.
19 (A)And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within their bowels: and I will take the [i]stony heart out of their bodies, and will give them an heart of flesh,
20 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and execute them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
21 But upon them, whose heart is toward their idols, and whose affection goeth after their abominations, I will lay their way upon their own heads saith the Lord God.
22 ¶ Then did the Cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel was upon them on high.
23 And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is toward the East side of the city.
24 Afterward the Spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea to them that were led away captives: so the vision that I had seen, went up from me.
25 Then I declared unto them that were [j]led away captives, all the things that the Lord had showed me.
12 1 The parable of the captivity. 18 Another parable whereby the distress of hunger and thirst is signified.
1 The word of the Lord also came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see [k]not: they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.
3 Therefore thou son of man, [l]prepare thy stuff to go into captivity, and go forth by day in their sight: and thou shalt pass from thy place to another place in their sight, if it be possible that they may consider it: for they are a rebellious house.
4 Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as the stuff of him that goeth into captivity: and thou shalt go forth at even in their sight, as they that go forth into captivity.
5 Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
6 In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders and carry it forth in the dark: thou shalt cover thy face that thou see not the earth: for I have set thee as a [m]sign unto the house of Israel.
7 And as I was commanded, so I brought forth my stuff by day, as the stuff of one that goeth into captivity: and by night I dug through the wall with mine hand, and brought it forth in the dark, and I bore it upon my shoulder in their sight.
8 And in the morning came the word of the Lord unto me, saying,
9 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto thee, What [n]doest thou?
10 But say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord God, This [o]burden concerneth the chief in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that are among them.
11 Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done unto them: they shall go into bondage and captivity.
12 And the chiefest that is among them, shall bear upon his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall, to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, that he see not the ground with his eyes.
13 My net also will I spread upon [p]him, and he shall be taken in my net, and I will bring him to Babel to the land of the Chaldeans, yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.
14 And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about him to help him, and all his garrisons, and I will draw out the sword after them.
15 And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.
16 But I will leave a [q]little number of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence, that they may declare all these abominations among the heathen, where they come, and they shall know, that I am the Lord.
17 ¶ Moreover, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
18 Son of man, eat thy bread with trembling, and drink thy water with trouble, and with carefulness,
19 And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord God of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel, They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with desolation: for the land shall be desolate from her abundance, because of the cruelty of them that dwell therein.
20 And the cities that are inhabited, shall be left void, and the land shall be desolate, and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
21 ¶ And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
22 Son of man, what is that proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, The days [r]are prolonged, and all visions [s]fail?
23 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord God, I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel: but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.
24 For no vision shall be anymore in vain, neither shall there be any flattering divination within the house of Israel.
25 For I am the Lord: I will speak, and that thing that I shall speak, shall come to pass: it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the thing, and will perform it, saith the Lord God.
26 Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
27 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth, is for [t]many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that are far off.
28 Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God, All my words shall no longer be delayed, but that thing which I have spoken, shall be done, saith the Lord God.
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