3They say, 'Will it not soon be time to build houses? This city is a cooking pot, and we are the meat.'
3They say, 'Will it not soon be time to build houses? This city is a cooking pot, and we are the meat.'
1 Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the gate of the house of the LORD that faces east. There at the entrance to the gate were twenty-five men, and I saw among them Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, leaders of the people.
2 The LORD said to me, "Son of man, these are the men who are plotting evil and giving wicked advice in this city.
3 They say, 'Will it not soon be time to build houses? This city is a cooking pot, and we are the meat.'
4 Therefore prophesy against them; prophesy, son of man."
5 Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon me, and he told me to say: "This is what the LORD says: That is what you are saying, O house of Israel, but I know what is going through your mind.
11:3Which say, [It is] not near; let us build houses: this [city is] the caldron, and we [be] the flesh.
11:3Saying: Were not houses lately built? This city is the caldron, and we the flesh.
11:3that say, The time is not near to build houses: this city is the caldron, and we are the flesh.
11:3who say, It is not the time to build houses: this is the cauldron, and we are the flesh.
11:3which say, The time is not near to build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.
11:3Who say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we are the flesh.
11:3who say, [The time] is not near to build houses: this [city] is the caldron, and we are the flesh.
11:3who are saying, It is not near — to build houses, it is the pot, and we the flesh.
11:3Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.