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| 1The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east facing gate of the LORD's Temple. At the entrance of the gate I saw 25 men. Included among them were Azzur's son Jaazaniah and Benaiah's son Pelatiah, who were princes of the people. | 1Then the Spirit lifted me and brought me to the east gateway of the LORD’s Temple, where I saw twenty-five prominent men of the city. Among them were Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, who were leaders among the people. |
| 2Then he told me, "Son of Man, these men are plotting evil and are giving wicked advice in this city. | 2The Spirit said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who are planning evil and giving wicked counsel in this city. |
| 3They keep saying, 'The right time to build families hasn't yet arrived. The city is the pot and we are the meat.' | 3They say to the people, ‘Is it not a good time to build houses? This city is like an iron pot. We are safe inside it like meat in a pot. ’ |
| 4Therefore you are to prophesy against them. Prophesy, Son of Man!" | 4Therefore, son of man, prophesy against them loudly and clearly.” |
| 5Just then the Spirit of the LORD took control of me and told me, "You are to say, 'This is what the LORD says: "You've said, O house of Israel, that I know what goes through your mind. | 5Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon me, and he told me to say, “This is what the LORD says to the people of Israel: I know what you are saying, for I know every thought that comes into your minds. |
| 6You've increased the number of fatally wounded in this city and you've filled your streets with the dead." | 6You have murdered many in this city and filled its streets with the dead. |
| 7Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says, "The corpses that you've laid out in your midst are the meat, and this city is the cooking pot. But you'll be taken out from the middle of it. | 7“Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: This city is an iron pot all right, but the pieces of meat are the victims of your injustice. As for you, I will soon drag you from this pot. |
| 8You've feared the sword, but I'm bringing violent death in your direction," declares the Lord GOD. | 8I will bring on you the sword of war you so greatly fear, says the Sovereign LORD. |
| 9"I'm bringing you out from the middle of it and I'm going to deliver you into the hands of strangers, because I'm going to carry out my sentence against you. | 9I will drive you out of Jerusalem and hand you over to foreigners, who will carry out my judgments against you. |
| 10You're going to die violently, and I'll judge you as far as the borders of Israel. Then you'll learn that I am the LORD. | 10You will be slaughtered all the way to the borders of Israel. I will execute judgment on you, and you will know that I am the LORD. |
| 11This city won't be your cooking pot and neither will you be the meat in it, because I'm going to judge you as far as the borders of Israel. | 11No, this city will not be an iron pot for you, and you will not be like meat safe inside it. I will judge you even to the borders of Israel, |
| 12Then you'll learn that I am the LORD, because you didn't live by my statues or obey my ordinances. Instead, you obeyed the ordinances of the nations around you."'" | 12and you will know that I am the LORD. For you have refused to obey my decrees and regulations; instead, you have copied the standards of the nations around you.” |
| 13While I was prophesying, Benaiah's son Pelatiah died, so I fell on my face and cried out with a loud voice. "Ah, Lord GOD," I said, "are you going to put an end to the survivors within Israel?" | 13While I was still prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah suddenly died. Then I fell face down on the ground and cried out, “O Sovereign LORD, are you going to kill everyone in Israel?” Hope for Exiled Israel |
| 14Then this message came to me from the LORD: | 14Then this message came to me from the LORD: |
| 15"Son of Man, your brothers, your other relatives, your fellow exiles, and the entire house of Israel are the people to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, 'They've abandoned the LORD. This land was given to us for an inheritance.'" | 15“Son of man, the people still left in Jerusalem are talking about you and your relatives and all the people of Israel who are in exile. They are saying, ‘Those people are far away from the LORD, so now he has given their land to us!’ |
| 16"Therefore you are to say, 'This is what the Lord GOD says, "Although I've removed them far away to live among the nations, and although I've scattered them throughout the earth, yet I've continued to be their sanctuary, even for the short time that they will be living in the lands to which they've gone."' | 16“Therefore, tell the exiles, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Although I have scattered you in the countries of the world, I will be a sanctuary to you during your time in exile. |
| 17"Therefore you are to say, 'This is what the Lord GOD says, "I'm going to gather you from among the nations, assembling you from the lands among which you have been dispersed. I'll give you the land of Israel. | 17I, the Sovereign LORD, will gather you back from the nations where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel once again.’ |
| 18When they return from there and cast away all of their loathsome things and detestable practices, | 18“When the people return to their homeland, they will remove every trace of their vile images and detestable idols. |
| 19then I'll give them a united heart, placing a new spirit within them. I'll remove their stubborn heart and give them a heart that's sensitive to me. | 19And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them. I will take away their stony, stubborn heart and give them a tender, responsive heart, |
| 20When they live by my statutes and keep my ordinances by observing them, then they'll be my people and I will be their God. | 20so they will obey my decrees and regulations. Then they will truly be my people, and I will be their God. |
| 21But to those whose hearts delight in loathsome things and detestable practices, I'll bring the consequences of their behavior crashing down on their own heads," declares the Lord GOD.'" | 21But as for those who long for vile images and detestable idols, I will repay them fully for their sins. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken!” The LORD’s Glory Leaves Jerusalem |
| 22Then the cherubim arose, with their wheels alongside, and the glory of Israel's God remained above and over them. | 22Then the cherubim lifted their wings and rose into the air with their wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel hovered above them. |
| 23The glory of the LORD went up from the middle of the city and stood on the mountain, east of the city. | 23Then the glory of the LORD went up from the city and stopped above the mountain to the east. |
| 24Then in a vision from the Spirit of God, the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the exiles in Chaldea. At that point, the vision that I had been observing ended. | 24Afterward the Spirit of God carried me back again to Babylonia, to the people in exile there. And so ended the vision of my visit to Jerusalem. |
| 25Later, I spoke to the exiles concerning everything the LORD had spoken that I had witnessed. | 25And I told the exiles everything the LORD had shown me. |
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