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.

²⁷ And my tabernacle shall be with them: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

¹ Now when all these things shall be come upon thee, the blessing or the curse, which I have set forth before thee, and thou shalt be touched with repentance of thy heart among all the nations, into which the Lord thy God shall have scattered thee,

² And shalt return to him, and obey his commandments, as I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul:

³ The Lord thy God will bring back again thy captivity, and will have mercy on thee, and gather thee again out of all the nations, into which he scattered thee before.

⁴ If thou be driven as far as the poles of heaven, the Lord thy God will fetch thee back from thence,

⁵ And will take thee to himself, and bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it: and blessing thee, he will make thee more numerous than were thy fathers.

⁶ The Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed: that then mayst love The Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, that thou mayst live.

⁷ And he will turn all these curses upon thy enemies, and upon them that hate and persecute thee.

⁸ But thou shalt return, and hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and shalt do all the commandments which I command thee this day:

⁹ And the Lord thy God will make thee abound in all the works of thy hands, in the fruit of thy womb, and in the fruit of thy cattle, in the fruitfulness of thy land, and in the plenty of all things. For the Lord will return to rejoice over thee in all good things, as he rejoiced in thy fathers:

¹⁰ Yet so if thou hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and keep his precepts and ceremonies, which are written in this law: and return to the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.

¹¹ This commandment, that I command thee this day is not above thee, nor far off from thee:

¹² Nor is it in heaven, that thou shouldst say: Which of us can go up to heaven to bring it unto us, and we may hear and fulfil it in work?

¹³ Nor is it beyond the sea: that thou mayst excuse thyself, and say: Which of us can cross the sea, and bring it unto us: that we may hear, and do that which is commanded?

¹⁴ But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart, that thou mayst do it.

¹⁵ Consider that I have set before thee this day life and good, and on the other hand death and evil:

¹⁶ That thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and keep his commandments and ceremonies and judgments, and thou mayst live, and he may multiply thee, and bless thee in the land, which thou shalt go in to possess.

¹⁷ But if thy heart be turned away, so that thou wilt not hear, and being deceived with error thou adore strange gods, and serve them:

¹⁸ I foretell thee this day that thou shalt perish, and shalt remain but a short time in the land, to which thou shalt pass over the Jordan, and shalt go in to possess it.

¹⁹ I call heaven and earth to witness this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Choose therefore life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

²⁰ And that thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and obey his voice, and adhere to him (for he is thy life, and the length of thy days,) that thou mayst dwell in the land, for which the Lord swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that he would give it them.