Jaazaniah son of Azzur sits at Jerusalem’s gate as a proverb of safety soothes a dying city. Ezekiel 11 overturns the slogan, promises sanctuary to the scattered, and points to a future gathering where renewed hearts walk in God’s ways.
Pelatiah’s sudden death shatters a slogan of safety at Jerusalem’s gate. Ezekiel 11 answers with both judgment and a promise of new hearts, revealing God as true sanctuary for His scattered people.
At Jerusalem’s east gate, self-protective counsel collapses while God promises sanctuary in exile, regathering, and a new heart and spirit. The glory departs now, but the pledge of return prepares a people to welcome his presence again.
Ezekiel 10 captures the glory’s movement from threshold to east gate while coals of judgment fall on a city that refused cleansing. The scene is severe yet hopeful, pointing to the later return of glory to a purified house.
Ezekiel 9 shows the glory at the threshold, a scribe sealing mourners, and judgment beginning at the sanctuary. The vision distinguishes hearts and prepares the way for glory’s return to a cleansed house.
Ezekiel 8 carries a prophet into the temple to expose idols at the gate, in hidden rooms, and at the altar steps. The Lord’s jealousy refuses polite syncretism, links worship failure to violence, and prepares the way for glory to return to a cleansed house.
Ezekiel 7 is a siren to a people who mistook patience for permission. The Lord announces the end of a corrupt order, strips wealth of power, silences false guidance, and leaves one thing standing: the knowledge of the Lord that prepares a humbled people for restoration.
Ezekiel 6 targets the land’s idol-sites—mountains, hills, and groves—promising demolition that leads to knowledge of the Lord. Through judgment God preserves a remnant who remember him, grieve their sin, and return, preparing the way for worship restored when his glory returns.
Ezekiel 5 turns a priest into a living parable with a sword-razor and weighed hair. The thirds of fire, sword, and scattering expose covenant rebellion, yet a guarded remnant hints at mercy. When wrath is spent, the Lord’s zeal clears the way for restoration.
Ezekiel 4 turns prophecy into public sign-acts: a model siege, a bound prophet, rationed bread, and shocking fuel. The enacted warning exposes sin’s long tail and God’s severe mercy, preparing the way for the future return of glory to a people who repent.
Ezekiel 3 moves the prophet from vision to vocation—eating the scroll, strengthened by the Spirit, charged as a watchman, and even bound to silence until God opens his mouth—teaching modern disciples courage, empathy, and trust in God’s timing.
God raises Ezekiel to his feet and sends him to a stubborn people with a scroll full of lament. The chapter redefines success as faithful speech by the Spirit’s power, sustaining hope that judgment serves mercy’s long plan.
Ezekiel 1 meets an exiled priest with a moving throne and blazing holiness. The vision declares God’s sovereign presence in exile and plants hope for the day his glory returns to dwell among his purified people.
Lamentations 5 gathers the city’s losses into a single prayer and fixes its eyes on the throne: “Restore us to yourself.” It shows how to confess, ask, and wait under the King whose reign endures.
Lamentations 4 catalogs the city’s reversals and names the holy reason for them. Yet the poem ends with a promise: Zion’s punishment will end, and the cup will pass to those who mocked her.