Ezekiel 11:3
Who say, This is not the time for building houses: this town is the cooking-pot and we are the flesh.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.
In Context
4For this cause be a prophet against them, be a prophet, O son of man.
Cross References
Jeremiah 1:11Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what do you see? And I said, I see a branch of an almond-tree.
Ezekiel 7:7The crowning time has come on you, O people of the land: the time has come, the day is near; the day will not be slow in coming, it will not keep back.
Ezekiel 12:22Son of man, what is this saying which you have about the land of Israel, The time is long and every vision comes to nothing?
Ezekiel 24:3And make a comparison for this uncontrolled people, and say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Put on the cooking-pot, put it on the fire and put water in it:
2 Peter 3:4Saying, Where is the hope of his coming? From the death of the fathers till now everything has gone on as it was from the making of the world.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 11:2-14
Message of Wrath to Jerusalem; Presumption of the Princes; Awakening Predictions. ( b. c. 593.) 1 Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the Lord 's house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. 2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city: 3 Which say, It is not near; let us… Read the whole commentary →