Ezekiel · Literal Standard Version
Ezekiel 11 Literal Standard Version
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1 And [the] Spirit lifts me up, and it brings me to the east gate of the house of YHWH, that is facing the east, and behold, at the opening of the gate [are] twenty-five men, and I see in their midst Jaazaniah son of Azzur, and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, heads of the people.
1 Moreover the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of Yahweh’s house, which looks eastward. Behold, twenty-five men were at the door of the gate; and I saw among them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
2 And He says to me, “Son of man, these [are] the men who are devising iniquity, and who are giving evil counsel in this city;
2 He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;
3 who are saying, It [is] not near—to build houses, it [is] the pot, and we [are] the flesh.
3 who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses. This is the cauldron, and we are the meat.’
4 Therefore prophesy concerning them, prophesy, son of man.”
4 Therefore prophesy against them. Prophesy, son of man.”
5 And [the] Spirit of YHWH falls on me, and He says to me, “Say, Thus said YHWH: You have said correctly, O house of Israel, || And I have known the steps of your spirit.
5 Yahweh’s Spirit fell on me, and he said to me, “Speak, ‘Yahweh says: “Thus you have said, house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind.
6 You multiplied your wounded in this city, || And filled its out-places with the wounded.
6 You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain.”
7 Therefore, thus said Lord YHWH: Your wounded whom you placed in its midst, || They [are] the flesh, and it [is] the pot, || And He has brought you out from its midst.
7 “‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Your slain whom you have laid in the middle of it, they are the meat, and this is the cauldron; but you will be brought out of the middle of it.
8 You have feared a sword, || And I bring in a sword against you, || A declaration of Lord YHWH.
8 You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you,” says the Lord Yahweh.
9 And I have brought you out of its midst, || And given you into the hand of strangers, || And I have done judgments among you.
9 “I will bring you out of the middle of it, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
10 You fall by the sword, || I judge you on the border of Israel, || And you have known that I [am] YHWH.
10 You will fall by the sword. I will judge you in the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
11 It is not for a pot for you, || Nor are you for flesh in its midst, || I judge you at the border of Israel.
11 This will not be your cauldron, neither will you be the meat in the middle of it. I will judge you in the border of Israel.
12 And you have known that I [am] YHWH, || For you have not walked in My statutes, || And you have not done My judgments, || And according to the judgments of the nations || Who are around you, you have done!”
12 You will know that I am Yahweh, for you have not walked in my statutes. You have not executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are around you.”’”
13 And it comes to pass, at my prophesying, that Pelatiah son of Benaiah is dying, and I fall on my face, and cry—a loud voice—and say, “Aah! Lord YHWH, You are making an end of the remnant of Israel.”
13 When I prophesied, 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 there is a word of YHWH to me, saying,
14 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
15 “Son of man, your brothers, your brothers, men of your family, and all the house of Israel—all of it—[are] they to whom inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Keep far off from YHWH;
15 “Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your relatives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, are the ones to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far away from Yahweh. This land has been given to us for a possession.’
16 it [is] ours, the land has been given for an inheritance; therefore say, Thus said Lord YHWH: Because I put them far off among nations, || And because I scattered them through lands, I am also for a little sanctuary to them, || In lands to where they have gone in.
16 “Therefore say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “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 said Lord YHWH: And I have assembled you from the peoples, || And I have gathered you from the lands, || Into which you have been scattered, || And I have given the ground of Israel to you.
17 “Therefore say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “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 have gone in there, || And turned aside all its detestable things, || And all its abominations—out of it.
18 “‘They will come there, and they will take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from there.
19 And I have given one heart to them, || And I give a new spirit in your midst, || And I have turned the heart of stone out of their flesh, || And I have given a heart of flesh to them.
19 I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh,
20 So that they walk in My statutes, || And keep My judgments, and have done them, || And they have been to Me for a people, || And I am to them for God.
20 that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
21 As for those whose heart is going to the heart || Of their detestable things and their abominations, || I have put their way on their head, || A declaration of Lord YHWH.”
21 But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way on their own heads,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”
22 And the cherubim lift up their wings, and the wheels [are] alongside them, and the glory of the God of Israel [is] over them above.
22 Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels were beside them. The glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
23 And the glory of YHWH goes up from off the midst of the city, and stands on the mountain, that [is] on the east of the city.
23 Yahweh’s glory went up from the middle of the city, and stood on the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
24 And [the] Spirit has lifted me up, and brings me to Chaldea, to the expulsion, in a vision, by [the] Spirit of God, and the vision that I have seen goes up from off me;
24 The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to the captives. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
25 and I speak to the expulsion all the matters of YHWH that He has showed me.
25 Then I spoke to the captives all the things that Yahweh had shown me.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Azzur
Named as the father of Jaazaniah, a leader of the people.
Cited in the guide: Ezekiel 11:1
Benaiah
Named as the father of Pelatiah, a leader of the people.
Cited in the guide: Ezekiel 11:1
Jaazaniah
Leader of the people seen at the east gate of the temple in Ezekiel's vision, who gave wicked counsel in the city.
Cited in the guide: Ezekiel 11:1
Pelatiah
Leader of the people seen at the east gate of the temple in Ezekiel's vision, who died as Ezekiel prophesied.
Cited in the guide: Ezekiel 11:1; Ezekiel 11:13
Cross references (24)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Ezekiel 3:12; Ezekiel 3:14; Ezekiel 8:3; Ezekiel 8:16; Ezekiel 11:24
- 2 Isaiah 30:1; Jeremiah 5:5; Psalm 2:1–2; Psalm 52:2; Isaiah 59:4
- 3 Ezekiel 12:22; Ezekiel 12:27; Ezekiel 24:3–14; Amos 6:5; 2 Peter 3:4
- 4 Isaiah 58:1; Ezekiel 20:46–47; Hosea 6:5; Ezekiel 3:17–21; Ezekiel 25:2
- 5 Jeremiah 17:10; Revelation 2:23; Ezekiel 2:2; Jeremiah 16:17; Ezekiel 8:1
- 6 Ezekiel 7:23; Isaiah 1:15; Ezekiel 22:12; Ezekiel 22:27; Ezekiel 22:2–6
- 7 Micah 3:2–3; Ezekiel 24:3–13; 2 Kings 25:18–22; Jeremiah 52:24–27; Ezekiel 3:9–11
- 8 Proverbs 10:24; Isaiah 66:4; Job 3:25; Isaiah 24:17–18; Jeremiah 38:19–23
- 9 Ezekiel 5:8; Psalm 106:41; Deuteronomy 28:36; Ezekiel 16:41; Deuteronomy 28:49–50
- 10 2 Kings 14:25; Jeremiah 52:9–10; Jeremiah 39:6; Ezekiel 6:7; 2 Kings 25:19–21
- 11 Ezekiel 11:3; Ezekiel 11:7–10
- 12 Ezekiel 8:10; Ezekiel 8:14; Ezekiel 8:16; Psalm 106:35–39; 2 Chronicles 36:14
- 13 Ezekiel 11:1; Ezekiel 9:8; Acts 5:5; Jeremiah 28:15–17; Joshua 7:6–9
- 15 Ezekiel 33:24; Isaiah 66:5; Jeremiah 24:1–5; Isaiah 65:5; John 16:2
- 16 Isaiah 8:14; Psalm 91:1; Psalm 90:1; Deuteronomy 30:3–4; Psalm 31:20
- 17 Ezekiel 28:25; Ezekiel 34:13; Jeremiah 3:18; Ezekiel 36:24; Jeremiah 24:5
- 18 Ezekiel 37:23; Ezekiel 5:11; Ezekiel 42:7–8; Ezekiel 7:20; Isaiah 1:25–27
- 19 Ezekiel 36:26–27; Jeremiah 31:33; Psalm 51:10; Jeremiah 32:39–40; Jeremiah 24:7
- 20 Ezekiel 14:11; Psalm 105:45; Titus 2:11–12; Jeremiah 30:22; Luke 1:6
- 21 Ezekiel 9:10; Ecclesiastes 11:9; Ezekiel 11:18; Ezekiel 22:31; James 1:14–15
- 22 Ezekiel 10:19; Ezekiel 1:19–20
- 23 Zechariah 14:4; Ezekiel 8:4; Ezekiel 43:2; Ezekiel 10:4; Matthew 23:37–24:2
- 24 Ezekiel 8:3; Ezekiel 3:12; Ezekiel 11:1; Acts 10:16; Ezekiel 1:3
- 25 Ezekiel 3:4; Ezekiel 3:17; Ezekiel 3:27; Ezekiel 2:7
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Ezekiel also speaks thus, The Spirit of the Lord came upon me, and said unto me, Thus saith the Lord.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Also thou hast in Ezekiel (if thou be not now weary of listening), what has already been quoted, And the Spirit fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the Lord.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
And again in Ezekiel, And he brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldæa, to them of the captivity.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)