The Exiles’ Return Promised

¹⁴ Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying: ¹⁵ Son of man, your brothers, your kindred, your fellow captives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, are they to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, “Go far from the Lord. This land has been given to us as a possession.”

¹⁶ Therefore say, Thus says the Lord God: Although I have cast them far off among the nations, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet I will be a sanctuary to them for a little while in the countries where they have gone.

¹⁷ Therefore say, Thus says the Lord God: I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

¹⁸ When they come there, they shall take away all the detestable things and all the abominations from it. ¹⁹ I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them. And I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh, ²⁰ that they may walk in My statutes, and keep My ordinances, and do them. And they shall be My people, and I will be their God. ²¹ But as for those whose hearts walk after the hearts of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, says the Lord God.