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And I heard someone speaking to me from the house,[a] and a man was standing beside me. And he said to me, “Son of man,[b] this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet where I will dwell[c] in the midst of the Israelites[d] to eternity, and they, the house of Israel, they and their kings, will not again defile my holy name[e] with their fornication and with their offerings for the dead[f] of their kings on their high places. When they placed their threshold[g] with[h] my threshold, their doorframe beside my doorframe and the[i] wall was between me and between them, then they defiled my holy name,[j] with their detestable things that they did, and so I consumed them in my anger.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 43:6 Or “from inside”
  2. Ezekiel 43:7 Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
  3. Ezekiel 43:7 Literally “which I will dwell there”
  4. Ezekiel 43:7 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  5. Ezekiel 43:7 Literally “the name of my holiness”
  6. Ezekiel 43:7 Or “corpses”
  7. Ezekiel 43:8 Literally “in/at their placing their threshold”
  8. Ezekiel 43:8 Or “beside/next to”
  9. Ezekiel 43:8 Or “their”
  10. Ezekiel 43:8 Literally “the name of my holiness”