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Book of Ezekiel, Chapter 11

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Chapter 11 of Ezekiel—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ And a spirit1 proceeded to lift me up2 and bring me to the eastern gate of the house of Jehovah that is facing eastward,3 and, look! in the entrance of the gate there were twenty-five men,[a]4 and I got to see in the midst of them Ja·az·a·niʹah the son of Azʹzur and Pel·a·tiʹah[b] the son of Be·naiʹah,[c] princes of the people.5
  2. Then he[d] said to me: “Son of man, these are the men[e] that are scheming hurtfulness and advising bad counsel against this city;6
  3. that are saying, ‘Is not the building of houses close at hand?7 She[f] is the widemouthed cooking pot,8 and we are the flesh.’
  4. ¶ “Therefore prophesy against them. Prophesy, O son of man.”9
  5. ¶ Then the spirit[g] of Jehovah fell upon me,10 and he went on to say to me: “Say, ‘This is what Jehovah has said:11 “YOU people said the right thing, O house of Israel; and as regards the things that come up in YOUR spirit,[h] I myself have known12 it.[i]
  6. YOU have caused YOUR slain ones in this city to be many, and YOU have filled her streets with the slain [ones].”’”13
  7. “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said, ‘As regards YOUR slain ones whom YOU people have put in the midst of her,[j] they are the flesh,14 and she is the widemouthed cooking pot;15 and there will be a bringing forth[k] of YOU yourselves out of the midst of her.’”16
  8. ¶ “‘A sword YOU have feared,17 and a sword I shall bring upon YOU,’ is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah.18
  9. ‘And I shall certainly bring YOU forth out of the midst of her and give YOU into the hand of strangers19 and execute upon YOU acts of judgment.20
  10. By the sword YOU will fall.21 On the border[l] of Israel22 I shall judge YOU people; and YOU will have to know that I am Jehovah.23
  11. She herself will not prove to be for YOU a widemouthed cooking pot,24 and YOU yourselves will not[m] prove to be flesh in the midst of her. On the border[n] of Israel I shall judge YOU,
  12. and YOU will have to know that I am Jehovah, because in my regulations YOU did not walk and my judgments YOU did not do,25 but according to the judgments of the nations that are round about YOU, YOU have done.’”26
  13. ¶ And it came about that as soon as I prophesied Pel·a·tiʹah the son of Be·naiʹah[o] himself died,27 and I proceeded to fall upon my face and cry with a loud voice28 and say: “Alas, O Sovereign Lord Jehovah!29 Is it an extermination that you are executing with the remaining ones of Israel?”30
  14. ¶ And the word of Jehovah continued to occur to me, saying:
  15. “Son of man, as regards your brothers,31 your brothers, the men[p] concerned with your right to repurchase, and all the house of Israel, all of it, are the ones to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Get far away from Jehovah. To us it belongs; the land has been given [us] as a thing to possess’;32
  16. therefore say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said: “Although I have put them far away among the nations, and although I have scattered them among the lands,33 yet I shall become to them a sanctuary for a little while[q] among the lands to which they have come.”’34
  17. ¶ “Therefore say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said: “I will also collect YOU from the peoples and gather YOU from the lands among which YOU have been scattered, and I will give YOU the soil of Israel.35
  18. And they will certainly come there and remove all its disgusting things and all its detestable things out of it.36
  19. And I will give them one heart,37 and a new spirit I shall put inside them;[r]38 and I shall certainly remove the heart of stone from their flesh39 and give them a heart of flesh,40
  20. in order that they may walk in my own statutes and keep my own judicial decisions and actually carry them out;41 and they may really become my people42 and I myself may become their God.”’43
  21. ¶ “‘“But as for those whose heart[s] is walking in their disgusting things and their detestable things,44 upon their head I shall certainly bring their own way,” is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah.’”45
  22. ¶ And the cherubs46 now lifted up their wings, and the wheels were close by them,47 and the glory48 of the God of Israel was over them, from above.49
  23. And the glory of Jehovah50 went ascending from over the midst of the city and began to stand over the mountain51 that is to the east of the city.52
  24. And a spirit53 itself lifted me up54 and finally brought me to Chal·deʹa to the exiled people,55 in the vision by the spirit[t] of God; and the vision that I had seen went ascending from upon me.
  25. And I began to speak to the exiled people all the things of Jehovah that he had caused me to see.56

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ “Men.” Heb., ʼish.
  2. ^ Meaning “Jehovah Has Provided Escape.” Heb., Pelat·yaʹhu.
  3. ^ Meaning “Jehovah Has Built.” Heb., Bena·yaʹhu.
  4. ^ “He,” MTVg; LXXSy, “Jehovah.”
  5. ^ “The men.” Heb., ha·ʼana·shimʹ, pl. of ʼish.
  6. ^ “She,” fem., referring to the “city” of Jerusalem.
  7. ^ Or, “active force.” Heb., ruʹach; Gr., pneuʹma; Lat., spiʹri·tus. See Ge 1:2 ftn, “Force.”
  8. ^ Lit., “and the ascents of your spirit.” Heb., u·ma·ʽalohthʹ ru·chakhemʹ.
  9. ^ “It,” fem., referring to “spirit.”
  10. ^ Or, “it,” fem., referring to the “city” of Jerusalem.
  11. ^ “There will be a bringing forth.” In Heb. this is understood to be a verb in the infinitive absolute, indefinite as to time and impersonal, and used as the subject of the sentence.
  12. ^ Or, “territory.”
  13. ^ “Not,” LXXSyVg.
  14. ^ Or, “territory.”
  15. ^ Heb., Bena·yahʹ. Compare vs 1 ftn, “Benaiah.”
  16. ^ “Men.” Heb., ʼan·shehʹ, pl. of ʼish.
  17. ^ Or, “in a little way.”
  18. ^ “Them,” TLXXSyVg and many Heb. mss; M, “you,” pl.
  19. ^ Lit., “And into the heart.” Heb., weʼel-levʹ.
  20. ^ Or, “by the active force.” Heb., beruʹach; Gr., pneuʹma·ti; Lat., spiʹri·tu. See Ge 1:2 ftn, “Force”; Ge 6:17 ftn, “Active.”

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Heb 1:7
  2. ^ Eze 3:12; 8:3; 2Co 12:2
  3. ^ Eze 10:19
  4. ^ Eze 8:16
  5. ^ Is 1:23; Eze 22:27; Ho 5:10
  6. ^ Is 30:1; Mc 2:1
  7. ^ Eze 12:22; 2Pe 3:4
  8. ^ Je 1:13; Eze 24:3
  9. ^ Is 58:1; Eze 3:17; 20:46; 21:2
  10. ^ Nu 11:25; 1Sa 10:6; Eze 2:2; 3:24; Mc 3:8; 2Pe 1:21
  11. ^ 1Ki 22:14; Je 1:7
  12. ^ Eze 20:32; Heb 4:13
  13. ^ 2Ki 21:16; Je 2:34; Eze 7:23; 22:4; Mt 23:35
  14. ^ Mc 3:3
  15. ^ Je 1:13; Eze 24:6
  16. ^ Je 52:27
  17. ^ Je 38:19; 42:14
  18. ^ Je 44:12; 1Th 2:16
  19. ^ De 28:36; Ps 106:41; Je 39:6
  20. ^ Eze 5:8; 16:41; Jd 15
  21. ^ 2Ki 25:21; 2Ch 36:17; Je 52:10
  22. ^ 1Ki 8:65; 2Ki 14:25; Je 52:27
  23. ^ Ps 9:16; Eze 6:13
  24. ^ Je 1:13
  25. ^ Ex 19:8; Le 26:40; 1Ki 11:33; Ezr 9:7; Ne 9:34; Eze 20:16
  26. ^ De 12:30; 2Ki 21:2; 2Ch 28:3; Ps 106:35; Eze 8:10
  27. ^ Pr 6:15; Ac 5:5
  28. ^ Ps 119:120
  29. ^ Eze 9:8
  30. ^ De 9:19
  31. ^ Is 66:5
  32. ^ Eze 33:24
  33. ^ Le 26:44; De 30:3; 2Ki 24:15; Ps 44:11; Je 24:5; 30:11; 31:10
  34. ^ Ps 31:20; 90:1; 91:9; Pr 18:10
  35. ^ Is 11:11; Je 30:10; 32:37; Eze 20:42; 34:13; 36:24; 37:12; Am 9:14
  36. ^ Eze 37:23
  37. ^ 2Ch 30:12; Je 24:7; 32:39
  38. ^ Ps 51:10; Je 31:33; 32:39; Eze 36:31; Eph 4:23
  39. ^ Is 48:4; Zc 7:12; Mr 10:5; Ro 2:5
  40. ^ Eze 36:26
  41. ^ Ps 105:45
  42. ^ Je 11:4
  43. ^ Eze 14:11
  44. ^ Je 17:9
  45. ^ Eze 9:10; 22:31
  46. ^ Eze 9:3; 10:2
  47. ^ Eze 1:19; 10:19
  48. ^ 1Ki 8:11; 2Ch 7:3
  49. ^ Eze 10:18
  50. ^ Eze 8:4; 9:3; 10:4; 43:4
  51. ^ Zc 14:4; Mt 24:3; Ac 1:12
  52. ^ Eze 43:2
  53. ^ Eze 8:3; Heb 1:7
  54. ^ 2Co 12:2
  55. ^ Ps 137:1
  56. ^ Eze 2:7

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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