2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of an exasperating house: which have eyes to see, and see not: and ears to hear, and hear not: because it is an exasperating house.📜💬📚

3 Thou therefore, o son of man, make thee vessels of transmigration, and thou shalt flit by day before them: and thou shalt flit out of thy place to another place in their sight; if perhaps they will behold: because it is an exasperating house.📜💬📚

4 And thou shalt carry forth thy vessels as the vessels of one flitting by day in the sight of them: and thou shalt go forth at even before them, as one goeth forth that flitteth.📜💬📚

5 Before their eyes dig to thee through the wall: and thou shalt go forth through it.📜💬📚

6 In their sight on shoulders thou shalt be carried, in the dark thou shalt be carried out: thou shalt cover thy face, and shalt not see the earth: because I have given thee a portending sign to the house of Israel.📜💬📚

7 I did therefore as he had commanded me: I carried my vessels as the vessels of one flitting by day: and at even I digged to me through the wall with my hand: and I went forth in the dark, and was carried on shoulders in their sight.📜💬📚

8 And the word of our Lord was made to me in the morning, saying:📜💬📚

9 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel the exasperating house said to thee: What doest thou?📜💬📚

10 Say to them: Thus saith our Lord God: This burden upon the Prince, that is in Jerusalem, and upon all the house of Israel, which is in the midst of them.📜💬📚

11 Say: I am your portending sign, as I have done, so shall it be done to them, into transmigration, and into captivity shall they go.📜💬📚

12 And the Prince, that is in the midst of them, shall be carried on shoulders, he shall go forth in the dark: they shall dig through the wall to bring him out: his face shall be covered, that he may not see the earth with his eye.📜💬📚

13 And I will stretch forth my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my net: and I will bring him into Babylon into the land of the Chaldees, and he shall not see it, and there he shall die.📜💬📚

14 And all that are about him, his guard, and his troops I will disperse into every wind: and I will draw the sword after them.📜💬📚

15 And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have dispersed them in the Gentiles, and scattered them in the lands.📜💬📚

16 And I will leave of them a few men from the sword, and the famine, and the pestilence: that they may declare all their wicked deeds in the Gentiles, to which they shall enter: and they shall know that I am the Lord.📜💬📚

17 And the word of our Lord was made unto me, saying:📜💬📚

18 Son of man, eat thy bread in trouble: yea & drink thy water in haste and sorrowfulness.📜💬📚

19 And thou shalt say to the people of the land: Thus saith our Lord God to them that dwell in Jerusalem in the land of Israel: Their bread they shall eat in carefulness, and their water in desolation they shall drink: that the land may be made desolate from the multitude thereof, for the iniquity of all that dwell therein.📜💬📚

20 And the cities, that are now inhabited, shall be desolate, and the land desert: and you shall know that I am the Lord.📜💬📚

Presumptuous Proverb

21 And the word of our Lord was made to me, saying:📜💬📚

22 Son of man, what is this proverb with you in the land of Israel saying: The days shall be deferred to a long time, and all vision shall perish.📜💬📚

23 Therefore say to them: Thus saith our Lord God: I will make this proverb cease, neither shall it any more be commonly said in Israel: and speak to them that the days are at hand, and the word of every vision.📜💬📚

24 for all vision shall no more be in vain, nor divination ambiguous in the midst of the children of Israel.📜💬📚

25 Because I, the Lord will speak: and what word soever I shall speak, shall also be done, it shall not be prolonged any more: but in your days ye exasperating house, will I speak the word, and will do it, saith our Lord God.📜💬📚

26 And the word of our Lord was made to me, saying:📜💬📚

27 Son of man, behold the house of Israel, they that say: The vision, that this man seeth, is for many days: and this man Prophesieth long times.📜💬📚

28 Therefore say to them: Thus saith our Lord God: Every word of mine shall be prolonged no further: the word that I shall speak, shall be accomplished, saith our Lord God.📜💬📚

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Ezekiel 12 📜 📕 ↷

Signs of the Coming Captivity

Presumptuous Proverb

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