Ezekiel 11:19-25

11:19 I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within them; ¹  I will remove the hearts of stone from their bodies ²  and I will give them tender hearts, ³  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. ⁴  11:21 But those whose hearts are devoted to detestable things and abominations, I hereby repay them for what they have done, ⁵  says the sovereign Lord.”

11:22 Then the cherubim spread ⁶  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 ⁷  over the mountain east of it. 11:24 Then a wind ⁸  lifted me up and carried me to the exiles in Babylonia, ⁹  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 ¹⁰  the Lord had shown me.

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.”

⁴ 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).

⁵ tn Heb “their way on their head I have placed.”

⁶ tn Heb “lifted.”

⁷ tn Heb “stood.”

⁸ tn Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2.

⁹ tn Heb “to Chaldea.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “all the words of.”