Ezekiel 11

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the temple. At the entrance of the gate I saw twenty-five men, among whom were Jaazaniah, son of Azzur, and Pelatiah, son of Benaiah, princes of the people.	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 The LORD said to me: Son of man, these are the men who are planning evil and giving wicked counsel in this city.	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 "Shall we not," they say, "be building houses soon? The city is the kettle, and we are the meat."	3 Saying: Were not houses lately built? This city is the caldron, and we the flesh.
4 Therefore prophesy against them, son of man, prophesy!	4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, thou son of man.
5 Then the spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and he told me to say: Thus says the LORD: This is the way you talk, house of Israel, and what you are plotting I well know.	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 slain many in this city and have filled its streets with your slain.	6 You have killed a great many in this city, and you have filled the streets thereof with the slain.
7 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Your slain whom you have placed within it, they are the meat, and the city is the kettle; but you I will take out of it.	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 fear the sword, but the sword I will bring upon you, says the Lord GOD.	8 You have feared the sword, and I will bring the sword upon you, saith the Lord God.
9 I will bring you out of the city, and hand you over to foreigners, and inflict punishments upon you.	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 By the sword you shall fall; at the boundaries of Israel I will judge you; thus you shall know that I am the LORD.	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 The city shall not be a kettle for you, nor shall you be the meat within it. At the boundaries of Israel I will judge you,	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, by whose statutes you have not lived, and whose ordinances you have not kept; rather, you have acted according to the ordinances of the nations around you.	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 While I was prophesying, Pelatiah, the son of Benaiah, died. I fell prone and cried out in a loud voice: "Alas, Lord GOD! will you utterly wipe out what remains of Israel?"	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 Thus the word of the LORD came to me:	14 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
15 Son of man, it is about your kinsmen, your fellow exiles, and the whole house of Israel that the inhabitants of Jerusalem say, "They are far away from the LORD; to us the land of Israel has been given as our possession."	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 say: Thus says the Lord GOD: Though I have removed them far among the nations and scattered them over foreign countries--and was for a while their only sanctuary in the countries to which they had gone--	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 I will gather you from the nations and assemble you from the countries over which you have been scattered, and I will restore to you the land of Israel.	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 They shall return to it and remove from it all its detestable abominations.	18 And they shall go in thither, and shall take away all the scandals, and all the abominations thereof from thence.
19 I will give them a new heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove the stony heart from their bodies, and replace it with a natural heart,	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 so that they will live according to my statutes, and observe and carry out my ordinances; thus they shall be my people and I will be their God.	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 those whose hearts are devoted to their detestable abominations, I will bring down their conduct upon their heads, says the Lord 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 Then the cherubim lifted their wings, and the wheels went along with them, while up above them was the glory of the God of Israel.	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 rose from the city and took a stand on the mountain which is to the east of the city.	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.