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¹ Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of Yahweh's house, which looks eastward: and look, at the door of the gate five and twenty men; and I saw in the midst of them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.² And he said to me, Son of man, these are the men that devise iniquity, and that give wicked counsel in this city;³ that say, [The time] is not near to build houses: this [city] is the cauldron, and we are the flesh.⁴ Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.⁵ And the Spirit of Yahweh fell on me, and he said to me, Speak, Thus says Yahweh: Thus you have said, O house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind.⁶ You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled the streets thereof with the slain.⁷ Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this [city] is the cauldron; but you shall be brought forth out of the midst of it.⁸ You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you, says the Lord Yahweh.⁹ And I will bring you forth out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.¹⁰ You shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.¹¹ This [city] shall not be your cauldron, neither shall you be the flesh in the midst thereof; I will judge you in the border of Israel;¹² and you shall know that I am Yahweh: for you have not walked in my statutes, neither have you executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about you.¹³ And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then I fell down on my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh! will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?

¹⁴ And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,¹⁵ Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your kindred, and all the house of Israel, all of them, [are they] to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get far from Yahweh; to us this land is given for a possession.¹⁶ Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Whereas I have removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet I will be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they have come.¹⁷ Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.¹⁸ And they shall come there, and they shall take away all the detestable things and disgusting things thereof from there.¹⁹ And I will give them another heart, and I will put a new spirit inside you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;²⁰ that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.²¹ But those whose heart walks after their detestable things and disgusting things, I will bring their way on their own heads, says the Lord Yahweh.

²² Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels were beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.²³ And the glory of Yahweh went up from the midst of the city, and stood on the mountain which is on the east side of the city.²⁴ And the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.²⁵ Then I spoke to them of the captivity all the things that Yahweh had shown me.