¹ And the spirit lifted me up, and brought me into the east gate of the house of the Lord, which looketh towards the rising of the sun: and behold in the entry of the gate five and twenty men: and I saw in the midst of them Jezonias the son of Azur, and Pheltias the son of Banaias, princes of the people.

² And he said to me: Son of man, these are the men that study iniquity, and frame a wicked counsel in this city,

³ Saying: Were not houses lately built? This city is the caldron, and we the flesh.

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

⁵ And the spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said to me: Speak: Thus saith the Lord: Thus have you spoken, O house of Israel, for I know the thoughts of your heart.

⁶ You have killed a great many in this city, and you have filled the streets thereof with the slain.

⁷ Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Your slain, whom you have laid in the midst thereof, they are the flesh, and this is the caldron: and I will bring you forth out of the midst thereof.

⁸ You have feared the sword, and I will bring the sword upon you, saith the Lord God.

⁹ And I will cast you out of the midst thereof, and I will deliver you into the hand of the enemies, and I will execute judgments upon you.

¹⁰ You shall fall by the sword: I will judge you in the borders of Israel, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

¹¹ This shall not be as a caldron to you, and you shall not be as flesh in the midst thereof: I will judge you in the borders of Israel.

¹² And you shall know that I am the Lord: because you have not walked in my commandments, and have not done my judgments, but you have done according to the judgments of the nations that; are round about you.

¹³ And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pheltias the son of Banaias died: and I fell down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice: and said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God: wilt thou make an end of all the remnant of Israel?

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

¹⁵ Son of man, thy brethren, thy brethren, thy kinsmen, and all the house of Israel, all they to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said: Get ye far from the Lord, the land is given in possession to us.

¹⁶ Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because I have removed them far off among the Gentiles, and because I have scattered them among the countries: I will be to them a little sanctuary in the countries whither they are come.

¹⁷ Therefore speak to them: Thus saith the Lord God: I will gather you from among the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries wherein you are scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

¹⁸ And they shall go in thither, and shall take away all the scandals, and all the abominations thereof from thence.

¹⁹ And I will give them one heart, and will put a new spirit in their bowels: 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 commandments, and keep my judgments, and do them: and that they may be my people, and I may be their God.

²¹ But as for them whose heart walketh after their scandals and abominations, I will lay their way upon their head, saith the Lord God.

²² And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and the wheels with them: and the glory of the God of Israel was over them.

²³ And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city, and stood over the mount that is on the east side of the city.

²⁴ And the spirit lifted me up, and brought me into Chaldea, to them of the captivity, in vision, by the spirit of God: and the vision which I had seen was taken up from me.

²⁵ And I spoke to them of the captivity all the words of the Lord, which he had shewn me.

¹³ Neither is there any creature invisible in his sight: but all things are naked and open to his eyes, to whom our speech is.

¹ And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying:

² Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I have been jealous for Sion with a great jealousy, and with a great indignation have I been jealous for her.

³ Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I am returned to Sion, and I will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called The city of truth, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, The sanctified mountain.

⁴ Thus saith the Lord of hosts: There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem: and every man with his staff in his hand through multitude of days.

⁵ And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls, playing in the streets thereof.

⁶ Thus saith the Lord of hosts: If it seem hard in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days: shall it be hard in my eyes, saith the Lord of hosts?

⁷ Thus saith the Lord of hosts : Behold I will save my people from the land of the east, and from the land of the going down of the sun.

⁸ And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God in truth and in justice.

⁹ Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Let your hands be strengthened, you that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, in the day that the house of the Lord of hosts was founded, that the temple might be built.

¹⁰ For before those days there was no hire for men, neither was there hire for beasts, neither was there peace to him that came in, nor to him that went out, because of the tribulation: and I let all men go every one against his neighbour.

¹¹ But now I will not deal with the remnant of this people according to the former days, saith the Lord of hosts.

¹² But there shall be the seed of peace: the vine shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew: and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.

¹³ And it shall come to pass, that as you were a curse among the Gentiles, O house of Juda, and house of Israel: so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing: fear not, let your hands be strengthened.

¹⁴ For thus saith the Lord of hosts: As I purposed to afflict you, when your fathers had provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord,

¹⁵ And I had no mercy: so turning again I have thought in these days to do good to the house of Juda, and Jerusalem: fear not.

¹⁶ These then are the things, which you shall do: Speak ye truth every one to his neighbour: judge ye truth and judgment of peace in your gates.

¹⁷ And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his friend: and love not a false oath: for all these are the things that I hate, saith the Lord.

¹⁸ And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying:

¹⁹ Thus saith the Lord of hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth shall be to the house of Juda, joy, and gladness, and great solemnities: only love ye truth and peace.

²⁰ Thus saith the Lord of hosts, until people come, and dwell in many cities,

²¹ And the inhabitants go one to another, saying: Let us go, and entreat the face of the Lord, and let us seek the Lord of hosts: I also will go.

²² And many peoples, and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the face of the Lord.

²³ Thus saith the Lord of hosts : In those days, wherein ten men of all languages of the Gentiles shall take hold, and shall hold fast the shirt of one that is a Jew, saying: We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.