11:1 Then a spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of Adonai’s house, the gate that faces eastward. At the entrance of the gate I saw twenty-five men; among them were Ya’azanyah the son of ‘Azur and P’latyahu the son of B’nayahu, leaders of the people.
11:2 He said to me, “Human being, these are the men who make evil plans and give wicked advice in this city.
11:3 They say, ‘The time hasn’t come to build houses. This city is the cooking pot, and we’re the meat!’
11:4 Therefore prophesy against them, human being, prophesy!”
11:5 The Spirit of Adonai fell on me, and he said to me, “Say, ‘Here is what Adonai says: “What you are saying is correct, house of Isra’el; because I know how your minds work.
11:6 You have killed many in this city, you have filled its streets with the dead.”
11:7 Therefore Adonai Elohim says this: “Those you have killed and strewn all over it, they are the meat; and this city is indeed the cooking pot; but you will be removed from it.
11:8 You are afraid of the sword, but I will bring the sword upon you,” says Adonai Elohim.
11:9 “I will bring you out of it, hand you over to foreigners and execute judgments among you.
11:10 You will die by the sword; I will judge you at the border of Isra’el; and you will know that I am Adonai.
11:11 This city will not be your cooking pot, but you will be the meat in it — I will judge you at Isra’el’s frontier;
11:12 and you will know that I am Adonai. For you have not lived by my laws or obeyed my rulings but have acted according to the rules of the nations surrounding you.”’”
11:13 As I was prophesying, P’latyahu the son of B’nayah died. I fell down on my face and cried out, “Oh, Adonai Elohim! Are you going to destroy completely those of Isra’el who are left?”
11:15 “Human being, it is to your kinsmen — your brothers, your relatives and the whole house of Isra’el — that the people living in Yerushalayim have said, ‘Get away from Adonai! This land has been given to us to possess!’
11:16 Therefore, say that Adonai Elohim says this: ‘True, I removed them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries; nevertheless, I have been a little sanctuary for them in the countries to which they have gone.’
11:17 Therefore, say that Adonai Elohim says this: ‘“I will gather you from the peoples and collect you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give the land of Isra’el to you.”
11:18 Then they will go there and remove all its loathsome things and disgusting practices,
11:19 and I will give them unity of heart. “I will put a new spirit among you.” I will remove from their bodies the hearts of stone and give them hearts of flesh;
11:20 so that they will live by my regulations, obey my rulings and act by them. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.
11:21 But as for those whose hearts go after the heart of their loathsome things and disgusting practices, I will bring [the consequences of] their ways on their own heads,’ says Adonai Elohim.”
11:22 The k’ruvim lifted their wings, and the wheels were next to them, with the glory of the God of Isra’el over them, above.
11:23 Next, the glory of Adonai rose from within the city and stood over the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
11:24 Then a spirit lifted me up and brought me, in the vision, by the Spirit of God, to the exiles in the land of the Kasdim; after which the vision I had seen left me.
11:25 So I told the exiles everything Adonai had shown me.
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