Evil in High Places

1And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the house of YHWH, facing eastward. And behold, at the entrance of the gate were twenty-five men, and I saw in their midst Jaazaniah son of Azzur, and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, princes of the people. 2And He said to me: “Son of man, these are the men devising iniquity and counseling evil counsel in this city, 3those saying, ‘It is not near for building houses? She is the pot,† and we are the meat!’ 4Therefore prophesy against them; prophesy, O son of man.”

5And fell upon me the Spirit of YHWH, and He said to me, “Say, thus says YHWH: Thus you⁺ have said, O house of Israel—and the things coming upon your⁺ spirit I know. 6You⁺ have multiplied your⁺ slain in this city, and its streets you⁺ have filled with the slain.

7Therefore, thus says the Lord YHWH: Your⁺ slain that you⁺ have set in its midst, they are the flesh, and she is the pot; and you⁺ will be brought out from her midst. 8The sword you⁺ have feared, and the sword I will bring upon you⁺, a declaration of the Lord YHWH. 9And I will bring you⁺ out from her midst, and I will give you⁺ into the hands of strangers, and I will execute judgments against you⁺. 10By the sword you⁺ will fall, and at the border of Israel I will judge you⁺. And you⁺ will know that I am YHWH.

She will not be a pot for you⁺, nor will you⁺ be in her midst as meat; at the border of Israel I will judge you⁺, and you⁺ will know that I am YHWH. For in My statutes you⁺ have not walked, and My ordinances you⁺ have not done, and according to the ordinances of the nations that are around you⁺ you⁺ have done.”

A Promise of Restoration
(Jeremiah 32:36–44)

13And it came to pass in my prophesying that Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. And I fell on my face and cried out in a great voice, and said: “Ah, Lord YHWH! Are You going to make to a complete end of the remnant of Israel?”

14And the word of YHWH came to me, saying: 15“Son of man, your brothers, your relatives, the men of your kindred, and all the house of Israel—all of it, are those whom those dwelling in Jerusalem have said to them, ‘Get far away from YHWH; this land has been given to us as a possession.’

16Therefore say, thus says the Lord YHWH: ‘Although I have set them far away among the nations, and although I have scattered them among the lands, I have been for them for a little while a sanctuary in the lands to which they have gone there.’

17Therefore say, thus says the Lord YHWH: ‘And I will gather you⁺ from the peoples, and will assemble you⁺ from the lands to which you⁺ have been scattered in them, and I will give to you⁺ the land of Israel.’

18And they will go there, and they will turn aside all her detestable things and all her abominations from her. 19And I will give to them a single heart, and I will give a new spirit within them; and I will turn away the heart of stone from their flesh, and I will give to them a heart of flesh, 20so that they may walk in My statutes and they may keep My ordinances and may do them; and they will be unto Me for a people, and I will be unto them God.

21And to those whose heart their detestable things and whose heart their abominations is going after, their deeds I will recompense upon their own heads! An utterance of the Lord YHWH.”

God’s Glory Leaves Jerusalem

22And the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels were beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel was over them from above. 23And the glory of YHWH went up from the midst of the city, and it stood on the mountain that is on the east of the city.

24And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to Chaldea,† to the captivity, in a vision by the Spirit of God; and went up from me the vision that I had seen. 25And I spoke to the captivity all the words of YHWH that He had shown to me.