Ezekiel 25

1 That they may walk in my commandments, and keep my judgments, and do them: and that they may be my people, and I may be their God. 2 But as for them whose heart walketh after their scandals and abominations, I will lay their way upon their head, saith the Lord God. 3 And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and the wheels with them: and the glory of the God of Israel was over them. 4 And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city, and stood over the mount that is on the east side of the city. 5 And the spirit lifted me up, and brought me into Chaldea, to them of the captivity, in vision, by the spirit of God: and the vision which I had seen was taken up from me. 6 And I spoke to them of the captivity all the words of the Lord, which he had shewn me. 8 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 9 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a provoking house: who have eyes to see, and see not: and ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a provoking house. 10 Thou, therefore, O son of man, prepare thee all necessaries for removing, and remove by day into their sight: and thou shalt remove out of thy place to another place in their sight, if so be they will regard it: for they are a provoking house. 11 And thou shalt bring forth thy furniture as the furniture of one that is removing by day in their sight: and thou shalt go forth in the evening in their presence, as one goeth forth that removeth his dwelling. 12 Dig thee a way through the wall before their eyes: and thou shalt go forth through it. 13 In their sight thou shalt be carried out upon men’s shoulders, thou shalt be carried out in the dark: thou shalt cover thy face, and shalt not see the ground: for I have set thee for a sign of things to come to the house of Israel. 14 I did therefore as he had commanded me: I brought forth my goods by day, as the goods of one that removeth: and in the evening I digged through the wall with my hand, and I went forth in the dark, and was carried on men’s shoulders in their sight. 15 And the word of the Lord came to me in the morning, saying: 16 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the provoking house, said to thee: What art thou doing? 17 Say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: This burden concerneth my prince that is in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel, that are among them.