Ezekiel 39:21-40:4

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Israel Restored to the Land

²¹ I will display my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed and my hand that I have laid on them.^{(A) 22} The house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day forward. ²³ And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt treacherously with me. So I hid my face from them and gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword.^{(B) 24} I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their transgressions and hid my face from them.^(C)

²⁵ Therefore thus says the Lord God: Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for my holy name.^{(D) 26} They shall bear their shame, and all the treachery they have practiced against me, when they live securely in their land with no one to make them afraid,^{(E) 27} when I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them from their enemies’ lands and through them have displayed my holiness in the sight of many nations.^{(F) 28} Then they shall know that I am the Lord their God because I sent them into exile among the nations and then gathered them into their own land. I will leave none of them behind,^{(G) 29} and I will never again hide my face from them, when I pour out my spirit upon the house of Israel, says the Lord God.^(H)

The Vision of the New Temple

40 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on that very day, the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me there.^{(I) 2} He brought me, in visions of God, to the land of Israel and set me down upon a very high mountain on which was a structure like a city to the south.^{(J) 3} When he brought me there, a man was there whose appearance shone like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring reed in his hand, and he was standing in the gateway.^{(K) 4} The man said to me, “Mortal, look closely and listen attentively, and set your mind on all that I shall show you, for you were brought here in order that I might show it to you; declare all that you see to the house of Israel.”^(L)