¹ And the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of Jehovah's house, which looketh eastward; and behold, at the door of the gate were five and twenty men; and I saw in the midst of them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.

² And he said unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise iniquity, and give wicked counsel in this city:

³ who say, It is not the time to build houses: this is the cauldron, and we are the flesh.

⁴ Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man.

⁵ And the Spirit of Jehovah fell on me, and said unto me, Speak, Thus saith Jehovah: Thus have ye said, O house of Israel; and the things that come into your mind, I know them.

⁶ Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.

⁷ Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and it is the cauldron; but you will I bring forth out of the midst of it.

⁸ Ye have feared the sword, and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord Jehovah.

⁹ And I will bring you out of the midst of it, and give you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.

¹⁰ Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the borders of Israel; and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah.

¹¹ This shall not be your cauldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst of it: I will judge you in the borders of Israel;

¹² and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah, in whose statutes ye have not walked, neither have done mine ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about you.

¹³ And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. And I fell down on my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?

¹⁴ And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

¹⁵ Son of man, [it is] thy brethren, thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel, the whole of it, unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem say, Get you far from Jehovah: unto us is this land given for a possession.

¹⁶ Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Although I have removed them far off among the nations, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries whither they are come.

¹⁷ Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will even gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where ye are scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

¹⁸ And they shall come thither, and they shall take away from thence all its detestable things and all its abominations.

¹⁹ And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

²⁰ that they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

²¹ But as for them whose heart walketh well-pleased with their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their heads, saith the Lord Jehovah.

²² And the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels were beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

²³ And the glory of Jehovah went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.

²⁴ And the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity; and the vision that I had seen went up from me.

²⁵ And I spoke unto them of the captivity all the things that Jehovah had shewn me.

¹ Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

² to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

³ We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

⁴ having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have toward all the saints,

⁵ because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News,

⁶ which has come to you; even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

⁷ even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on our behalf,

⁸ who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.

⁹ For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don't cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

¹⁰ that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

¹¹ strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy;

¹² giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;

¹³ who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;

¹⁴ in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins;

¹⁵ who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

¹⁶ For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.

¹⁷ He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

¹⁸ He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

¹⁹ For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him;

²⁰ and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.

²¹ You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works,

²² yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and blameless before him,

²³ if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

²⁴ Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the assembly;

²⁵ of which I was made a servant, according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you, to fulfill the word of God,

²⁶ the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

²⁷ to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;

²⁸ whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

²⁹ for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.