The prince’s night escape

Exile Baggage and the End of Delay · Ezekiel 12

Story guide: The scene identifies the prince historically without depicting later blinding, capture violence, or imprisonment.

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8And in the morning the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

9Son of man, has not the house of Israel, that rebellious house, said to you, ‘What are you doing?’

10Say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: This burden concerns the prince in Jerusalem and all the house of Israel who are in their midst.’

11Say, ‘I am a sign to you: just as I have done, so it shall be done to them; into exile, into captivity they shall go.’

12And the prince who is among them will lift his baggage onto his shoulder in the dark and go out. They will dig through the wall to bring him out through it. He will cover his face so that he may not see the land with his eyes.

13I will spread my net over him, and he will be caught in my snare. Then I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, and there he will die.

14And all who are around him—his helpers and all his troops—I will scatter to every wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.

15And they will know that I am Yahweh when I scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the lands.

16But I will spare from among them a few men from the sword, from famine, and from pestilence, so that they may recount all their abominations among the nations where they go; and they will know that I am Yahweh.

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