Ezekiel 43:1-12

New Catholic Bible

Restoration of the Temple

Chapter 43

The Lord’s Return.^1 [a]Then the man brought me to the gate that faces the east, ² and there I beheld the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east. The sound of his coming was like the sound of a mighty torrent of waters, and the earth shone with his glory.

³ The vision I beheld was like the man I had seen when he had come to destroy the city, and like the vision I had seen by the River Chebar, and I fell prostrate.

⁴ As the glory of the Lord entered the temple by way of the east gate, ⁵ the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the inner court, and I beheld the glory of the Lord fill the temple.

⁶ While the man stood beside me, I heard someone speaking to me from the temple. ⁷ He said to me: Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet. This is where I will dwell forever among the Israelites. Never again will the house of Israel defile my holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their whoring and by the corpses of their kings.

⁸ When they placed their threshold next to my threshold and their doorposts beside my doorposts, with only a wall separating me and them, they were defiling my holy name by the loathsome practices in which they engaged. Therefore, I will destroy them in my anger.^{[b] 9} From now on, they must cease their harlotry and remove the corpses of their kings from my presence. Then I will dwell among them forever.

¹⁰ The Temple Law. As for you, son of man, describe this temple to the house of Israel, so that they will be truly ashamed of their iniquities. ¹¹ And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design and arrangement of the temple, its exits and entrances, its shape, and all its ordinances. ¹² This is the law of the temple: all the surrounding area on the top of the mountain shall be most holy. Such is the law of the temple.