¹ And the wind, lifting me up, took me to the east doorway of the Lord's house, looking to the east: and at the door I saw twenty-five men; and among them I saw Jaazaniah, the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah, the son of Benaiah, rulers of the people.

² Then he said to me, Son of man, these are the men who are designing evil, who are teaching evil ways in this town:

³ Who say, This is not the time for building houses: this town is the cooking-pot and we are the flesh.

⁴ For this cause be a prophet against them, be a prophet, O son of man.

⁵ And the spirit of the Lord came on me, and he said to me, Say, These are the words of the Lord: This is what you have said, O children of Israel; what comes into your mind is clear to me.

⁶ You have made great the number of your dead in this town, you have made its streets full of dead men.

⁷ For this reason the Lord has said: Your dead whom you have put down in its streets, they are the flesh, and this town is the cooking-pot: but I will make you come out from inside it.

⁸ You have been fearing the sword, and I will send the sword on you, says the Lord.

⁹ I will make you come out from inside the town and will give you up into the hands of men from other lands, and will be judge among you.

¹⁰ You will come to your death by the sword; and I will be your judge in the land of Israel; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

¹¹ This town will not be your cooking-pot, and you will not be the flesh inside it; I will be your judge at the limit of the land of Israel;

¹² And you will be certain that I am the Lord: for you have not been guided by my rules or given effect to my orders, but you have been living by the orders of the nations round about you.

¹³ Now while I was saying these things, death came to Pelatiah, the son of Benaiah. Then falling down on my face and crying out with a loud voice, I said, Ah, Lord! will you put an end to all the rest of Israel?

¹⁴ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

¹⁵ Son of man, your countrymen, your relations, and all the children of Israel, all of them, are those to whom the people of Jerusalem have said, Go far from the Lord; this land is given to us for a heritage:

¹⁶ For this reason say, This is what the Lord has said: Though I have had them moved far off among the nations, and though I have sent them wandering among the countries, still I have been a safe place for them for a little time in the countries where they have come.

¹⁷ Then say, This is what the Lord has said: I will get you together from the peoples, and make you come out of the countries where you have been sent in flight, and I will give you the land of Israel.

¹⁸ And they will come there, and take away all the hated and disgusting things from it.

¹⁹ And I will give them a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in them; and I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh:

²⁰ So that they may be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them: and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.

²¹ But as for those whose heart goes after their hated and disgusting things, I will send on their heads the punishment of their ways, says the Lord.

²² Then the wings of the winged ones were lifted up, and the wheels were by their side; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them on high.

²³ And the glory of the Lord went up from inside the town, and came to rest on the mountain on the east side of the town.

²⁴ And the wind, lifting me up, took me in the visions of God into Chaldaea, to those who had been taken away as prisoners. So the vision which I had seen went away from me.

²⁵ Then I gave an account to those who had been taken prisoners of all the things which the Lord had made me see.

¹ The word of Yahweh also came to me, saying,

² Son of man, you dwell in the midst of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don't see, who have ears to hear, and don't hear; for they are a rebellious house.

³ Therefore, you son of man, prepare your stuff for moving, and move by day in their sight; and you shall move from your place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.

⁴ You shall bring forth your stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for moving; and you shall go forth yourself at even in their sight, as when men go forth into exile.

⁵ Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry your stuff out that way.

⁶ In their sight you shall bear it on your shoulder, and carry it forth in the dark; you shall cover your face, so that you don't see the land: for I have set you for a sign to the house of Israel.

⁷ I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for removing, and in the even I dug through the wall with my hand; I brought it forth in the dark, and bore it on my shoulder in their sight.

⁸ In the morning came the word of Yahweh to me, saying,

⁹ Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, What are you doing?

¹⁰ Say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This burden [concerns] the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel among whom they are.

¹¹ Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done to them; they shall go into exile, into captivity.

¹² The prince who is among them shall bear on his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, because he shall not see the land with his eyes.

¹³ My net also will I spread on him, and he shall be taken in my snare; and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.

¹⁴ I will scatter toward every wind all who are around him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.

¹⁵ They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the countries.

¹⁶ But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they come; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

¹⁷ Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

¹⁸ Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness;

¹⁹ and tell the people of the land, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, [and despoiled] of all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein.

²⁰ The cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

²¹ The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

²² Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?

²³ Tell them therefore, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but Tell them, The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of every vision.

²⁴ For there shall be no more any false vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.

²⁵ For I am Yahweh; I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall be performed; it shall be no more deferred: for in your days, rebellious house, will I speak the word, and will perform it, says the Lord Yahweh.

²⁶ Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

²⁷ Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he sees is for many day to come, and he prophesies of times that are far off.

²⁸ Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: None of my words shall be deferred any more, but the word which I shall speak shall be performed, says the Lord Yahweh.