¹⁴ And the word of Yahweh came^[a] to me, saying,^{[b] 15} “Son of man,^[c] your brothers, your brothers, the men of your redemption, and all of the house of Israel, all of it, who said concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem,^[d] ‘They are far from Yahweh, therefore to us this land was given as a possession.’ ¹⁶ Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Though I have removed them far away among the nations and though I have scattered them among the countries, yet I was a sanctuary to them for a little while in the countries to which they have gone.’”^{[e] 17} Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “And I will assemble you from the peoples, and I will gather you from the countries to which you were scattered among them, and I will give the land of Israel to you. ¹⁸ And when they come there, then they will remove all of its vile idols and all of its detestable things from it. ¹⁹ And I will give to them one heart, and a new spirit I will give^[f] in their inner parts. And I will remove their^[g] heart of stone from their body, and I will give to them a heart of flesh, ²⁰ so that they may walk in my statutes, and they will keep my regulations, and they will do them, and they will be to me a people, and I myself will be to them as God. ²¹ But to^[h] the heart of their abominations and the detestable things their heart is going. I will bring their way on their head,” declares^[i] the Lord Yahweh.’”