Ezekiel 11

Judgment Pronounced Ezekiel 11:5–12

⁵Verse 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. ⁶Verse 6. You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain. ⁷Verse 7. “‘Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “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. ⁸Verse 8. You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you,” says the Lord Yahweh.

⁹Verse 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. ¹⁰Verse 10. You will fall by the sword. I will judge you in the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am Yahweh. ¹¹Verse 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. ¹²Verse 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.”’”

Ezekiel's Intercession Ezekiel 11:13–15

¹³Verse 13. When I prophesied, Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I 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?” ¹⁴Verse 14. Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, ¹⁵Verse 15. “Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your relatives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, are they to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far away from Yahweh. This land has been given to us for a possession.’”

Promise of Restoration Ezekiel 11:16–20

¹⁶Verse 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.”’ ¹⁷Verse 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.” ¹⁸Verse 18. “‘They will come there, and they will take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from there. ¹⁹Verse 19. I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

²⁰Verse 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.

Judgment for the Wicked Ezekiel 11:21–23

²¹Verse 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.” ²²Verse 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. ²³Verse 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.

Vision Concludes Ezekiel 11:24–25

²⁴Verse 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. ²⁵Verse 25. Then I spoke to the captives all the things that Yahweh had shown me.