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And a spirit lifted me up and brought me to the gate of the house of the Lord that is opposite, facing east; and behold, at the entrance of the gate were about twenty-five men. And I saw among them Iezonias the son of Ezer and Phaltias the son of Banaias, the leaders of the people.
And the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and he said to me, Say, Thus says the Lord: So you have spoken, O house of Israel; and the devisings of your spirit I know.
Therefore thus says the Lord: Your dead, whom you struck down in her midst, these are the flesh, and she is the cauldron; but you I will bring out of her midst.
And it came to pass, while I was prophesying, that Phaltias the son of Banaias died. And I fell on my face and cried out with a loud voice and said, Alas, alas, Lord! Are you bringing the remnant of Israel to a full end?
Son of man, your brothers and the men of your captivity and all the house of Israel have been brought to an end, they to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, Keep far away from the Lord; to us the land has been given for an inheritance.
Therefore say, Thus says the Lord: I will drive them away among the nations and scatter them into all the earth; and I will be to them a small sanctuary in the countries wherever they go.
Therefore say, Thus says the Lord: I will receive them from the nations and gather them from the countries in which I scattered them, and I will give them the land of Israel.
And I will give them another heart, and I will put a new spirit within them; and I will pluck out the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,
But as for the heart of their abominations and of their lawless deeds, as their heart went, I have repaid their ways upon their own heads, says the Lord.
And a spirit lifted me up and brought me into the land of the Chaldeans, to the captivity, in a vision, in the Spirit of God; and I went up from the vision that I saw.