Ezekiel 36:16-21

Christian Standard Bible

Restoration of Israel’s People

¹⁶ The word of the Lord came to me: ¹⁷ “Son of man, while the house of Israel lived in their land, they defiled it with their conduct and actions.^(A) Their behavior before me was like menstrual impurity.^{(B) 18} So I poured out my wrath^(C) on them because of the blood they had shed on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols. ¹⁹ I dispersed them among the nations, and they were scattered among the countries.^(D) I judged them according to their conduct and actions.^{(E) 20} When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name,^(F) because it was said about them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, yet they had to leave his land in exile.’ ²¹ Then I had concern for my holy name,^(G) which the house of Israel profaned among the nations where they went.