1Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the gate of the house of the Lord that faces east. And there at the entrance of the gate were twenty-five men. Among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, who were leaders of the people.[ † ]Ezekiel 3:12-14Ezekiel 10:19Ezekiel 8:16 2And the Lord said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked counsel in this city. 3They are saying, ‘Is not the time near to build houses? The city is the cooking pot, and we are the meat.’[ † ]Ezekiel 12:22-272 Peter 3:4Jeremiah 1:13Ezekiel 11:7-11Ezekiel 24:3-6 4Therefore prophesy against them; prophesy, O son of man!”
5And the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me and told me to declare that this is what the Lord says: “That is what you are thinking, O house of Israel; and I know the thoughts that arise in your minds.[ † ]Ezekiel 2:2Ezekiel 3:24Jeremiah 16:17Jeremiah 17:10 6You have multiplied those you killed in this city and filled its streets with the dead.[ † ]Isaiah 1:15Ezekiel 7:23Ezekiel 22:2-6, 9, 12, 27
7Therefore this is what the Lord God says: The slain you have laid within this city are the meat, and the city is the pot; but I will remove you from it.[ † ]Ezekiel 24:3-6Micah 3:2-32 Kings 25:18-22Jeremiah 52:24-27Ezekiel 11:9 8You fear the sword, so I will bring the sword against you, declares the Lord God.[ † ]Jeremiah 42:16 9I will bring you out of the city and deliver you into the hands of foreigners, and I will execute judgments against you.[ † ]Ezekiel 5:8 10You will fall by the sword, and I will judge you even to the borders of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.[ † ]2 Kings 25:19-21Jeremiah 39:6Jeremiah 52:101 Kings 8:652 Kings 14:25Psalms 9:16Ezekiel 6:7Ezekiel 13:9-14, 21, 23
11The city will not be a pot for you, nor will you be the meat within it. I will judge you even to the borders of Israel.[ † ]Ezekiel 11:3-7 12Then you will know that I am the Lord. For you have neither followed My statutes nor practiced My ordinances, but you have conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.”[ † ]Leviticus 18:3-24Deuteronomy 12:30-31Ezekiel 8:10-14, 16
13Now as I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell facedown and cried out in a loud voice, “Oh, Lord God, will You bring the remnant of Israel to a complete end?”[ † ]Acts 5:5Ezekiel 9:8
14Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 15“Son of man, your brothers—your relatives, your fellow exiles, and the whole house of Israel—are those of whom the people of Jerusalem have said, ‘They are far away from the Lord; this land has been given to us as a possession.’
16Therefore declare that this is what the Lord God says: ‘Although I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries to which they have gone.’[ † ]Psalms 90:1Psalms 91:9Isaiah 8:14Jeremiah 29:7-11
17Therefore declare that this is what the Lord God says: ‘I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you from the countries to which you have been scattered, and I will give back to you the land of Israel.’[ † ]Isaiah 11:11-16Jeremiah 3:12-18Jeremiah 24:5Ezekiel 20:41-42Ezekiel 28:5
18When they return to it, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations.[ † ]Ezekiel 37:23 19And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,[ † ]Jeremiah 32:39Ezekiel 36:26Zephaniah 3:9Psalms 51:10Jeremiah 31:33Ezekiel 18:31Zechariah 7:12Romans 2:4-5 20so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.[ † ]Psalms 105:45Jeremiah 24:7Ezekiel 14:11Ezekiel 36:28Ezekiel 37:27
21But as for those whose hearts pursue detestable things and abominations, I will bring their conduct down upon their own heads, declares the Lord God.”[ † ]Ezekiel 9:10
22Then the cherubim, with the wheels beside them, spread their wings, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them.[ † ]Ezekiel 1:19 23And the glory of the Lord rose up from within the city and stood over the mountain east of the city.[ † ]Ezekiel 8:4Ezekiel 9:3Zechariah 14:4Ezekiel 43:2
24And the Spirit lifted me up and carried me back to Chaldea, to the exiles in the vision given by the Spirit of God. After the vision had gone up from me,[ † ]Ezekiel 8:32 Corinthians 12:2-4 25I told the exiles everything the Lord had shown me.