Ezekiel 36:16-21
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The Renewal of Israel
16 The word of the Lord came to me: 17 Mortal, when the house of Israel lived on their own soil, they defiled it with their ways and their deeds; their conduct in my sight was like the uncleanness of a menstrual period.(A) 18 So I poured out my wrath upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land and for the idols with which they had defiled it.(B) 19 I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries; in accordance with their conduct and their deeds I judged them.(C) 20 But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that it was said of them, “These are the people of the Lord, yet they had to go out of his land.”(D) 21 But I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they came.(E)
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