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Ezekiel 11:2

And the LORD said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked counsel in this city.

Ezekiel 11:2 · BSB

Ezekiel 11:2 in context

The verses around it, from Ezekiel 11.

1 Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the gate of the house of the LORD that faces east. And there at the entrance of the gate were twenty-five men. Among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, who were leaders of the people.

2 And the LORD said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked counsel in this city.

3 They are saying, ‘Is not the time near to build houses? The city is the cooking pot, and we are the meat.’

4 Therefore prophesy against them; prophesy, O son of man!”

5 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me and told me to declare that this is what the LORD says: “That is what you are thinking, O house of Israel; and I know the thoughts that arise in your minds.

6 You have multiplied those you killed in this city and filled its streets with the dead.

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Ezekiel 11:2 in other translations

KJV

Then said he unto me, Son of man, these [are] the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:

ASV

And he said unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise iniquity, and that give wicked counsel in this city;

ERV

And he said unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise iniquity, and that give wicked counsel in this city.

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