1Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of Yehovah’s house, which faces eastward: and behold, at the door of the gate twenty-five men; and I saw in the midst of them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. 2And he said to me, Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city; 3who say, The time is not near to build houses: this city is the caldron, and we are the flesh. 4Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man. 5And the Spirit of Yehovah fell on me, and he said to me, Speak, Thus says Yehovah: Thus you have said, O house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind. 6You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain. 7Therefore thus says the Lord Yehovah: Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron; but you shall be brought forth out of the midst of it. 8You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you, says the Lord Yehovah. 9And I will bring you forth out of its midst, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you. 10You shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and you shall know that I am Yehovah. 11This city shall not be your caldron, nor shall you be the flesh in its midst; I will judge you in the border of Israel; 12and you shall know that I am Yehovah: for you have not walked in my statutes, nor have you executed my ordinances, but have done according to the ordinances of the nations that are around you. 13And it happened, 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 Yehovah! will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel? 14And the word of Yehovah came to me, saying, 15Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your kindred, and all the house of Israel, all of them, are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Go far from Yehovah; to us this land is given for a possession. 16Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yehovah: Though I have removed them far off among the nations, and though I have scattered them among the countries, yet I will be a sanctuary to them for a little while in the countries where they have come. 17Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yehovah: 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. 18And they shall come there, and they shall take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from there. 19And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh; 20that 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. 21But as for those 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 Yehovah. 22Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels were beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above. 23And the glory of Yehovah went up from the midst of the city, and stood on the mountain which is on the east side of the city. 24And the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to those of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me. 25Then I spoke to those of the captivity all the things that Yehovah had shown me.