EZEKIEL CHAPTER 11
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Moreover the Spirit took me up, and brought me to the front gate of the house of
the Lord, that looks eastward. And behold, at the entrance of the gate were
about twenty-five men; and I saw in the midst of them Jechoniah the son of Azzur,
and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, the leaders of the people.
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And the Lord said to me, Son of man, these are the men that devise vanities, and
take evil counsel in this city;
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who say, Have not the houses been newly built? This is the caldron, and we are
the flesh.
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Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man.
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And the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said to me, say; Thus says the
Lord: Thus have you said, O house of Israel: and I know the devices of your
spirit.
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You have multiplied your dead in this city, and you have filled your ways with
slain men.
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Therefore thus says the Lord: Your dead whom you have smitten in the midst of
it, these are the flesh, and this city
is the caldron; but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.
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You fear the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, says the Lord.
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And I will bring you forth out of the midst of it, and will deliver you into the
hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
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You shall fall by the sword; I will judge you on the mountains of Israel; and
you shall know that I am the Lord.
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And it came to pass, while I was prophesying, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah
died. And I fell upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Alas,
alas, O Lord! Will you utterly destroy the remnant of Israel?
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And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
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Son of man, your brethren, and the men of your captivity, and all the house of
Israel have come to the full, to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, Keep
far away from the Lord: the land is given to us for an inheritance.
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Therefore say, Thus says the Lord: I will cast them off among the nations, and
will disperse them into every land, yet will I be to them for a little sanctuary
in the countries which they shall enter.
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Therefore say, Thus says the Lord: I will also take them from the heathen, and
gather them out of the lands in which I have scattered them, and will give them
the land of Israel.
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And they shall enter in there, and shall remove all the abominations from it,
and all its iniquities from it.
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And I will give them another heart, and will put a new spirit within them; and
will extract the heart of stone from their flesh, and give them a heart of
flesh;
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that they may walk in My commandments, and keep My ordinances, and do them: and
they shall be to Me a people, and I will be to them a God.
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And as for the heart set upon their
abominations and their iniquities, as their heart went after them, I have recompensed their ways on their heads, says the
Lord.
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Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the
glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
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And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city, and stood on the
mountain which was in front of the city.
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And the Spirit took me up, and brought me to the land of the Chaldeans, to the
captivity, in a vision by the Spirit of God: and I went up after the vision
which I saw.
25 And I spoke to the captivity all the words of the Lord, which He had shown me.