Text -- Ezekiel 11:16-25 (NET)

11:16 “Therefore say: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Although I have removed them far away among the nations and have dispersed them among the countries, I have been a little sanctuary for them among the lands where they have gone.’ 11:17 “Therefore say: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: When I regather you from the peoples and assemble you from the lands where you have been dispersed, I will give you back the country of Israel.’ 11:18 “When they return to it, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations. 11:19 I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within them; I will remove the hearts of stone from their bodies and I will give them tender hearts, 11:20 so that they may follow my statutes and observe my regulations and carry them out. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God. 11:21 But those whose hearts are devoted to detestable things and abominations, I hereby repay them for what they have done, says the sovereign Lord.” 11:22 Then the cherubim spread their wings with their wheels alongside them while the glory of the God of Israel hovered above them. 11:23 The glory of the Lord rose up from within the city and stopped over the mountain east of it. 11:24 Then a wind lifted me up and carried me to the exiles in Babylonia, in the vision given to me by the Spirit of God. Then the vision I had seen went up from me. 11:25 So I told the exiles everything the Lord had shown me.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Eze 11:16

¹ tn Or “have been partially a sanctuary”; others take this as temporal (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV “a little while”).

NET Notes: Eze 11:19

¹ tc The MT reads “you”; many Hebrew mss along with the LXX and other ancient versions read “within them.”

² tn Heb “their flesh.”

³ tn Heb “heart of flesh.”

NET Notes: Eze 11:20

¹ sn The expression They will be my people, and I will be their God occurs as a promise to Abraham (Gen 17:8), Moses (Exod 6:7), and the nation (Exod 29:45).

NET Notes: Eze 11:21

¹ tn Heb “their way on their head I have placed.”

NET Notes: Eze 11:22

¹ tn Heb “lifted.”

NET Notes: Eze 11:23

¹ tn Heb “stood.”

NET Notes: Eze 11:24

¹ tn Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2.

² tn Heb “to Chaldea.”

NET Notes: Eze 11:25

¹ tn Heb “all the words of.”