Ezekiel 11:3
Saying: Were not houses lately built? This city is the caldron, and we the flesh.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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
4Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, thou son of man.
Cross References
Jeremiah 1:11And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: What seest thou, Jeremias? And I said: I see a rod watching.
Ezekiel 7:7Destruction is come upon thee that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of slaughter is near, and not of the joy of mountains.
Ezekiel 12:22Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel? saying: The days shall be prolonged, and every vision shall fail.
Ezekiel 24:3And thou shalt speak by a figure a parable to the provoking house, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Set on a pot, set it on, I say, and put water into it.
2 Peter 3:4Saying: Where is his promise or his coming? for since the time that the fathers slept, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
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 →