THEN THE SPIRIT LIFTED ME UP AND BROUGHT ME TO THE GATE OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD THAT FACES EAST. THERE AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE GATE WERE TWENTY-FIVE MEN, AND I SAW AMONG THEM JAAZANIAH SON OF AZZUR AND PELATIAH SON OF BENAIAH, LEADERS OF THE PEOPLE.
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THE LORD SAID TO ME, 'SON OF MAN, THESE ARE THE MEN WHO ARE PLOTTING EVIL AND GIVING WICKED ADVICE IN THIS CITY.
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THEY SAY, 'HAVEN'T OUR HOUSES BEEN RECENTLY REBUILT? THIS CITY IS A POT, AND WE ARE THE MEAT IN IT.'
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THEREFORE PROPHESY AGAINST THEM; PROPHESY, SON OF MAN.'
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THEN THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME ON ME, AND HE TOLD ME TO SAY: 'THIS IS WHAT THE LORD SAYS: THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE SAYING, YOU LEADERS IN ISRAEL, BUT I KNOW WHAT IS GOING THROUGH YOUR MIND.
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You have killed many people in this city and filled its streets with the dead.
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THEREFORE THIS IS WHAT THE SOVEREIGN LORD SAYS: THE BODIES YOU HAVE THROWN THERE ARE THE MEAT AND THIS CITY IS THE POT, BUT I WILL DRIVE YOU OUT OF IT.
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YOU FEAR THE SWORD, AND THE SWORD IS WHAT I WILL BRING AGAINST YOU, DECLARES THE SOVEREIGN LORD.
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I WILL DRIVE YOU OUT OF THE CITY AND DELIVER YOU INTO THE HANDS OF FOREIGNERS AND INFLICT PUNISHMENT ON YOU.
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YOU WILL FALL BY THE SWORD, AND I WILL EXECUTE JUDGMENT ON YOU AT THE BORDERS OF ISRAEL. THEN YOU WILL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD.
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THIS CITY WILL NOT BE A POT FOR YOU, NOR WILL YOU BE THE MEAT IN IT; I WILL EXECUTE JUDGMENT ON YOU AT THE BORDERS OF ISRAEL.
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AND YOU WILL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD, FOR YOU HAVE NOT FOLLOWED MY DECREES OR KEPT MY LAWS BUT HAVE CONFORMED TO THE STANDARDS OF THE NATIONS AROUND YOU.'
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NOW AS I WAS PROPHESYING, PELATIAH SON OF BENAIAH DIED. THEN I FELL FACEDOWN AND CRIED OUT IN A LOUD VOICE, 'ALAS, SOVEREIGN LORD! WILL YOU COMPLETELY DESTROY THE REMNANT OF ISRAEL?'
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THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO ME:
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Son of man, the people of Jerusalem have said of your fellow exiles and all the other Israelites, 'They are far away from the LORD; this land was given to us as our possession.'
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THEREFORE SAY: 'THIS IS WHAT THE SOVEREIGN LORD 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 WHERE THEY HAVE GONE.'
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Therefore say: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will gather you from the nations and bring you back from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you back the land of Israel again.'
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THEY WILL RETURN TO IT AND REMOVE ALL ITS VILE IMAGES AND DETESTABLE IDOLS.
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I WILL GIVE THEM AN UNDIVIDED HEART AND PUT A NEW SPIRIT IN THEM; I WILL REMOVE FROM THEM THEIR HEART OF STONE AND GIVE THEM A HEART OF FLESH.
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THEN THEY WILL FOLLOW MY DECREES AND BE CAREFUL TO KEEP MY LAWS. THEY WILL BE MY PEOPLE, AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD.
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BUT AS FOR THOSE WHOSE HEARTS ARE DEVOTED TO THEIR VILE IMAGES AND DETESTABLE IDOLS, I WILL BRING DOWN ON THEIR OWN HEADS WHAT THEY HAVE DONE, DECLARES THE SOVEREIGN LORD.'
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THEN THE CHERUBIM, WITH THE WHEELS BESIDE THEM, SPREAD THEIR WINGS, AND THE GLORY OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL WAS ABOVE THEM.
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The glory of the LORD went up from within the city and stopped above the mountain east of it.
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The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the exiles in Babylonia in the vision given by the Spirit of God. Then the vision I had seen went up from me,
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and I told the exiles everything the LORD had shown me.