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And the Ruach lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the House of Yahuah, which faces east. And see, at the entrance of the gate were twenty-five ish. And I saw among them Yaazanyahu son of Azzur and Pelatyahu son of Benayahu, rulers of the people.
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And He said to me: “Son of Adam, these are the men who devise crookedness and give evil counsel in this city,
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who say: ‘It is not near to build houses. This city is the pot, and we are the flesh.’
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Therefore prophesy against them. Prophesy, son of Adam.”
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And the Ruach of Yahuah fell upon me and said to me: “Say: ‘Thus says Yahuah: So you have said, House of Yisra’el. And the things that rise up in your ruach, I know them.
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You have multiplied your slain in this city and filled its streets with the slain.’
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Therefore thus says Adonai Yahuah: ‘Your slain whom you have placed in its midst— they are the flesh, and this city is the pot. But you I will bring out from its midst.
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You have feared the sword, and the sword I will bring upon you,’ declares Adonai Yahuah.
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‘And I will bring you out from its midst and give you into the hand of foreigners, and I will execute Judgments upon you.
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By the sword you shall fall. At the border of Yisra’el I will judge you, and you shall know that I am Yahuah.
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This city shall not be your pot, and you shall not be the flesh in its midst. At the border of Yisra’el I will judge you.
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And you shall know that I am Yahuah, for in My statutes you have not walked, and My Judgments you have not done, but according to the judgments of the nations around you, you have done.’”
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And it came to pass, as I prophesied, that Pelatyahu son of Benayahu died. And I fell upon my face and cried with a great voice and said: “Ah, Adonai Yahuah! Will You make a complete end of the remnant of Yisra’el?”
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And the Word of Yahuah came to me, saying:
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“Son of Adam, your brothers—your brothers, the men of your redemption, and all the House of Yisra’el, all of it—are those to whom the inhabitants of Yerushalayim have said: ‘Go far away from Yahuah. To us this land has been given as a possession.’
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Therefore say: ‘Thus says Adonai Yahuah: Though I have caused them to go far away among the nations, and though I have scattered them among the lands, yet I have been to them as a little Sanctuary in the lands where they have gone.’
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Therefore say: ‘Thus says Adonai Yahuah: I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you from the lands among which you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Yisra’el.
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And they shall come there and remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.
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And I will give them one heart, and a new ruach I will place within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,
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so that they may walk in My statutes and guard My Judgments and do them. And they shall be My People, and I shall be their Elohim.
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But as for those whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, their way I will place upon their own head,’ declares Adonai Yahuah.”
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And the keruvim lifted their wings, and the wheels were beside them. And the Glory of the Elohim of Yisra’el was over them from above.
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And the Glory of Yahuah went up from the midst of the city and stood upon the mountain that is east of the city.
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And the Ruach lifted me up and brought me in a vision by the Ruach of Elohim to the land of the Kasdim, to the exiles. And the vision that I had seen went up from upon me.
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And I spoke to the exiles all the Words of Yahuah that He had shown me.