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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Ezekiel 11 ISV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ezekiel/11.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/ezekiel/11-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ISV</a> > Ezekiel 11</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ezekiel/10.htm" title="Ezekiel 10">◄</a> Ezekiel 11 <a href="../ezekiel/12.htm" title="Ezekiel 12">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/ezekiel/11.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Vision of the Eastern Gate</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/11-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east facing gate of the LORD’s Temple. At the entrance of the gate I saw 25 men. Included among them were Azzur’s son Jaazaniah and Benaiah’s son Pelatiah, who were princes of the people.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/11-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Then he told me, “Son of Man, these men are plotting evil and are giving wicked advice in this city. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/11-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>They keep saying, ‘The right time to build families<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11:3 Lit. houses">a</a></span> hasn’t yet arrived. The city is the pot and we are the meat.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/11-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Therefore you are to prophesy against them. Prophesy, Son of Man!”</p> <p class="heading">God Rebukes those who Plot Evil</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Just then the Spirit of the LORD took control of<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11:5 Lit. LORD fell on">b</a></span> me and told me, “You are to say, ‘This is what the LORD says: “You’ve said, O house of Israel, that I know what goes through your mind.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11:5 Or spirit">c</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>You’ve increased the number of fatally wounded in this city and you’ve filled your streets with the dead.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>‘Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says, “The corpses that you’ve laid out in your midst are the meat, and this city is the cooking pot. But you’ll be taken out from the middle of it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>You’ve feared the sword,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11:8 i.e. execution during military invasion; and so throughout the chapter">d</a></span> but I’m bringing violent death in your direction,”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11:8 Lit. bringing the sword against you">e</a></span> declares the Lord GOD. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“I’m bringing you out from the middle of it and I’m going to deliver you into the hands of strangers, because I’m going to carry out my sentence against you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>You’re going to die violently,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11:10 Lit. to fall by the sword">f</a></span> and I’ll judge you as far as the borders of Israel. Then you’ll learn<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11:10 Or know">g</a></span> that I am the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>This city won’t be your cooking pot and neither will you be the meat in it, because I’m going to judge you as far as the borders of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then you’ll learn<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11:12 Or know">h</a></span> that I am the LORD, because you didn’t live by my statues or obey my ordinances. Instead, you obeyed the ordinances of the nations around you.”’”</p> <p class="heading">Ezekiel Reacts to Pelatiah’s Death</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>While I was prophesying, Benaiah’s son Pelatiah died, so I fell on my face and cried out with a loud voice. “Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “are you going to put an end to the survivors within Israel?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then this message came to me from the LORD: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“Son of Man, your brothers, your other relatives, your fellow exiles,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11:15 So LXX and Syr; MT reads your redeemers">i</a></span> and the entire house of Israel are the people to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘They’ve abandoned the LORD. This land was given to us for an inheritance.’”</p> <p class="heading">The Future Hope of Israel</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/11-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“Therefore you are to say, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says, “Although I’ve removed them far away to live among the nations, and although I’ve scattered them throughout the earth, yet I’ve continued to be their sanctuary, even for the short time that they will be living in the lands to which they’ve gone.”’</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/11-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“Therefore you are to say, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says, “I’m going to gather you from among the nations, assembling you from the lands among which you have been dispersed. I’ll give you the land of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/11-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>When they return from there and cast away all of their loathsome things and detestable practices, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/11-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>then I’ll give them a united heart, placing a new spirit within them.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11:19 So LXX, Syriac, Targums, and Vulgate; MT reads you (pl)">j</a></span> I’ll remove their stubborn heart<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11:19 Lit. heart from their flesh">k</a></span> and give them a heart that’s sensitive to me.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="11:19 Lit. heart of flesh">l</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/11-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>When they live by my statutes and keep my ordinances by observing them, then they’ll be my people and I will be their God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/11-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But to those whose hearts delight in loathsome things and detestable practices, I’ll bring the consequences of their behavior crashing down on their own heads,” declares the Lord GOD.’”</p> <p class="heading">The Cherubim Leave</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/11-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Then the cherubim arose, with their wheels alongside, and the glory of Israel’s God remained above and over them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/11-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>The glory of the LORD went up from the middle of the city and stood on the mountain, east of the city. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/11-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Then in a vision from the Spirit of God, the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the exiles in Chaldea. At that point, the vision that I had been observing ended. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/11-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Later, I spoke to the exiles concerning everything the LORD had spoken that I had witnessed.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 11:3 Lit. <i>houses</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 11:5 Lit. <i>LORD fell on</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 11:5 Or <i>spirit</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 11:8 i.e. execution during military invasion; and so throughout the chapter<br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 11:8 Lit. <i>bringing the sword against you</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 11:10 Lit. <i>to fall by the sword</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 11:10 Or <i>know</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 11:12 Or <i>know</i><br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 11:15 So LXX and Syr; MT reads <i>your redeemers</i><br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 11:19 So LXX, Syriac, Targums, and Vulgate; MT reads <i>you </i>(pl)<br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 11:19 Lit. <i>heart from their flesh</i><br /><span class="fnb">l</span> 11:19 Lit. <i>heart of flesh</i><br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../ezekiel/10.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Ezekiel 10"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Ezekiel 10" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../ezekiel/12.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Ezekiel 12"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Ezekiel 12" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/ezekiel/11-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>