1 En die Gees het my opgehef en my gebring na die Oostelike Poort van die huis van die HERE wat na die ooste kyk; en kyk, by die ingang van die poort was daar vyf en twintig man, en onder hulle het ek gesien Ja„sanja, die seun van Assur, en Pelatja, die seun van Ben ja, vorste van die volk.

2 Toe sê Hy vir my: Mensekind, dit is die manne wat ongeregtigheid bedink en slegte raad gee in hierdie stad,

3 wat sê: Nie so gou kom die tyd om huise te bou nie: hierdie stad is die pot, en ons die vleis.

4 Daarom, profeteer teen hulle, profeteer, mensekind!

5 Toe val die Gees van die HERE op my, en Hy sê vir my: Spreek, so sê die HERE: So het julle gespreek, o huis van Israel; en wat in julle gees opkom, weet k.

6 Julle het die wat deur julle verslaan is, in hierdie stad vermenigvuldig, en julle het sy strate vol gemaak met die wat verslaan is.

7 Daarom, so sê die Here HERE: Die wat deur julle verslaan is, wat julle daarin neergelê het, hulle is die vleis, en hierdie stad is die pot, maar julle sal Ek daar uitbring.

8 Julle is bevrees vir die swaard, maar die swaard sal Ek oor julle bring, spreek die Here HERE.

9 En Ek sal julle daar uitbring en julle oorgee in die hand van vreemdes en strafgerigte onder julle oefen.

10 Julle sal deur die swaard val; by die grens van Israel sal Ek julle oordeel. En julle sal weet dat Ek die HERE is.

11 Hierdie stad sal vir julle nie die pot, en julle sal daarin nie die vleis wees nie; by die grens van Israel sal Ek julle oordeel.

12 En julle sal weet dat Ek die HERE is, omdat julle nie in my insettinge gewandel en my verordeninge nie gehou het nie, maar gehandel het volgens verordeninge van die nasies wat rondom julle is.

13 En terwyl ek profeteer, het Pelatja, die seun van Ben ja, gesterwe. Toe het ek op my aangesig geval en hardop uitgeroep en gesê: Ag, Here HERE, wil U 'n einde maak aan die oorblyfsel van Israel?

14 Toe het die woord van die HERE tot my gekom en gesê:

15 Mensekind, jou broers, jou broers, die manne wat aan jou verwant is, en die hele huis van Israel, almal saam, van wie die inwoners van Jerusalem sê: Bly ver van die HERE af, aan ons is dit, die land, as besitting gegee --

16 Daarom sê: So spreek die Here HERE: Omdat Ek hulle ver weggedryf het onder die nasies, en omdat Ek hulle verstrooi het in die lande en Ek vir hulle 'n kort rukkie 'n heiligdom geword het in die lande waar hulle gekom het --

17 daarom sê: So spreek die Here HERE: Ek sal julle bymekaarmaak uit die volke en julle versamel uit die lande waarin julle verstrooi is, en Ek sal aan julle die land Israel gee.

18 En hulle sal daarnatoe kom en al sy verfoeisels en al sy gruwels daaruit verwyder.

19 En Ek sal hulle een hart gee, en 'n nuwe gees in julle binneste gee; en Ek sal die hart van klip uit hulle vlees verwyder en hulle 'n hart van vlees gee,

20 sodat hulle in my insettinge kan wandel en my verordeninge kan hou en dit doen; en hulle sal vir my 'n volk wees, en Ek sal vir hulle 'n God wees.

21 Maar hulle wie se hart agter die hart van hulle verfoeisels en hulle gruwels aan loop -- hulle wandel laat Ek op hul hoof neerkom, spreek die Here HERE.

22 Toe het die g,rubs hulle vlerke opgehef en die wiele gelyktydig met hulle saam, terwyl die heerlikheid van die God van Israel bo-oor hulle was.

23 En die heerlikheid van die HERE het opgestyg uit die stad uit weg en het gaan staan op die berg wat oos van die stad lê.

24 Daarna het die Gees my opgeneem en my, in 'n gesig deur die Gees van God, gebring na Chald,a, na die ballinge; en die gesig wat ek gesien het, het van my af opgetrek.

25 En ek het aan die ballinge verkondig al die woorde van die HERE wat Hy my laat sien het.

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.