Ezekiel 11:6-16

6 You have killed many people in this city and filled its streets with the dead.
7 “Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: The bodies you have thrown there are the meat and this city is the pot, but I will drive you out of it.
8 You fear the sword, and the sword is what I will bring against you, declares the Sovereign LORD.
9 I will drive you out of the city and deliver you into the hands of foreigners and inflict punishment on you.
10 You will fall by the sword, and I will execute judgment on you at the borders of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
11 This city will not be a pot for you, nor will you be the meat in it; I will execute judgment on you at the borders of Israel.
12 And you will know that I am the LORD, for you have not followed my decrees or kept my laws but have conformed to the standards of the nations around you.”
13 Now as I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell facedown and cried out in a loud voice, “Alas, Sovereign LORD! Will you completely destroy the remnant of Israel?”

The Promise of Israel’s Return

14 The word of the LORD came to me:
15 “Son of man, the people of Jerusalem have said of your fellow exiles and all the other Israelites, ‘They are far away from the LORD; this land was given to us as our possession.’
16 “Therefore say: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Although I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries where they have gone.’

Cross References 16

  • 1. S Ezekiel 7:23; Ezekiel 22:6
  • 2. Jeremiah 1:13
  • 3. ver 3; Ezekiel 24:3-13; Micah 3:2-3
  • 4. S Leviticus 26:25; S Jeremiah 42:16
  • 5. S Proverbs 10:24; Isaiah 66:4
  • 6. Psalms 106:41
  • 7. Deuteronomy 28:36; S Ezekiel 5:8
  • 8. 2 Kings 14:25
  • 9. ver 3; Ezekiel 24:6
  • 10. S Ezekiel 6:7
  • 11. S Leviticus 18:4; Ezekiel 18:9
  • 12. Ezekiel 8:10
  • 13. ver 1
  • 14. S Ezekiel 9:8; Amos 7:2
  • 15. Ezekiel 33:24
  • 16. Psalms 31:20; Psalms 90:1; Psalms 91:9; S Isaiah 4:6; Isaiah 8:14
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