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The young men of Aven and Pi-beset will fall [by the sword], and they will go into captivity.
The grammar indicates that Aven, usually the Hebrew word “wickedness” or “trouble”, must in this verse be a proper noun. The they will go is grammatically feminine (the pronoun and the verb), and so it is not the young men, but the (locations) Aven and Pi-beset that will go into captivity.
The vowel-points, according to Brown-Driver-Briggs [1] and Daniel Block [2] get this one wrong. Instead of Awen, we should read On, which is Heliopolis.
[1] Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906), page 20.
[2] Daniel Block, The Book of Ezekiel, Chapters 25-48, page 164.