Ezekiel 11:2
Good News Translation
God said to me, "Mortal man, these men make evil plans and give bad advice in this city.

New Revised Standard Version
He said to me, “Mortal, these are the men who devise iniquity and who give wicked counsel in this city;

Contemporary English Version
The LORD said, "Ezekiel, son of man, these men are making evil plans and giving dangerous advice to the people of Jerusalem.

New American Bible
The LORD said to me: Son of man, these are the men who are planning evil and giving wicked counsel in this city.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to me: Son of man, these are the men that study iniquity, and frame a wicked counsel in this city,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he said to me: Son of man, these are the men that study iniquity, and frame a wicked counsel in this city,

Esther 8:3 And not content with these things, she fell down at the king's feet and wept, and speaking to him besought him, that he would give orders that the malice of Aman the Agagite, and his most wicked devices which he had invented against the Jews, should be of no effect.

Psalm 2:1,2 Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things? . . .

Psalm 36:4 He hath devised iniquity on his bed, he hath set himself on every way that is not good: but evil he hath not hated.

Psalm 52:2 All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit.

Isaiah 30:1 Woe to you, apostate children, saith the Lord, that you would take counsel, and not of me: and would begin a web, and not by my spirit, that you might add sin upon sin:

Isaiah 59:4 There is none that calleth upon justice, neither is there any one that judgeth truly: but they trust in a mere nothing, and speak vanities: they have conceived labour, and brought forth iniquity.

Jeremiah 5:5 I will go therefore to the great men, and will speak to them: for they have known the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God: and behold these have altogether broken the yoke more, and have burst the bonds.

Jeremiah 18:18 And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremiah: for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words.

Micah 2:1,2 Make thee bald, and be polled for thy delicate children: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle: for they are carried into captivity from thee. . . .

Context
Evil in High Places
1And the spirit lifted me up, and brought me into the east gate of the house of the Lord, which looketh towards the rising of the sun: and behold in the entry of the gate five and twenty men: and I saw in the midst of them Jezonias the son of Azur, and Pheltias the son of Banaias, princes of the people. 2And he said to me: Son of man, these are the men that study iniquity, and frame a wicked counsel in this city,3Saying: Were not houses lately built? This city is the caldron, and we the flesh.…
Cross References
Psalm 2:1
Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things?

Psalm 2:2
The kings of the earth stood up, and the princes met together, against the Lord, and against his Christ.

Psalm 52:2
All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit.

Isaiah 30:1
Woe to you, apostate children, saith the Lord, that you would take counsel, and not of me: and would begin a web, and not by my spirit, that you might add sin upon sin:

Jeremiah 5:5
I will go therefore to the great men, and will speak to them: for they have known the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God: and behold these have altogether broken the yoke more, and have burst the bonds.

Ezekiel 7:26
Trouble shall come upon trouble, and rumour upon rumour, and they shall seek a vision of the prophet, and the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.

Micah 2:1
Make thee bald, and be polled for thy delicate children: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle: for they are carried into captivity from thee.

Nahum 1:11
Out of thee shall come forth one that imagineth evil against the Lord, contriving treachery in his mind.

Ezekiel 11:1
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