The Lord Will Sprinkle His People

¹⁶ The word of the Lord came to me.

¹⁷ Son of man, when the house of Israel was living on their own soil, they defiled it by their conduct and by their actions. To me their conduct was as unclean as the blood of a woman’s period. ¹⁸ So I poured out my wrath on them because of the blood they had poured on the ground and because of the filthy idols^[a] with which they had defiled it, ¹⁹ and I scattered them among the nations so that they were dispersed among the countries. On the basis of their conduct and their actions I judged them. ²⁰ Then when they came to the various nations, they profaned my holy name when people said about them, “These are the people of the Lord, but they had to leave his land.” ²¹ So I was concerned about my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the various nations to which they had come.