Ezekiel 44:2-4

New English Translation

² The Lord said to me: “This gate will be shut; it will not be opened, and no one will enter by it. For the Lord, the God of Israel, has entered by it; therefore it will remain shut. ³ Only the prince may sit in it to eat a sacrificial meal^[a] before the Lord; he will enter by way of the porch of the gate and will go out by the same way.”

⁴ Then he brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple. As I watched, I noticed^[b] the glory of the Lord filling the Lord’s temple, and I threw myself face down.