¹¹ And I will multiply on you ^(A)man and beast, and ^(B)they shall multiply and be fruitful. And I will cause you to be inhabited as in ^(C)your former times, and ^(D)will do more good to you than ever before. ^(E)Then you will know that I am the Lord. ¹² I will let people walk on you, even my people Israel. ^(F)And they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no longer ^(G)bereave them of children. ¹³ Thus says the Lord God: Because they say to you, ^(H)‘You devour people, and you bereave your nation of children,’ ¹⁴ therefore you shall no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the Lord God. ¹⁵ And I will not let you hear anymore ^(I)the reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord God.”

The Lord's Concern for His Holy Name

¹⁶ The word of the Lord came to me: ^17 (J)“Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, ^(K)they defiled it by their ways and their deeds. Their ways before me were ^(L)like the uncleanness of a woman in her menstrual impurity. ¹⁸ So ^(M)I poured out my wrath upon them ^(N)for the blood that they had shed in the land, for the idols ^(O)with which they had defiled it. ^19 (P)I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. ^(Q)In accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them. ²⁰ But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, ^(R)they profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, and yet they had to go out of his land.’ ²¹ But I had concern ^(S)for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they came.

I Will Put My Spirit Within You

²² “Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: ^(T)It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, ^(U)which you have profaned among the nations to which you came. ^23 (V)And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. ^(W)And the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Lord God, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes. ^24 (X)I will take you ^(Y)from the nations and gather you from all the countries and ^(Z)bring you into your own land. ^25 (AA)I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from ^(AB)all your uncleannesses, and ^(AC)from all your idols ^(AD)I will cleanse you. ²⁶ And I will give you ^(AE)a new heart, and ^(AF)a new spirit I will put within you. ^(AG)And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. ^27 (AH)And I will put my Spirit within you, ^(AI)and cause you to walk in my statutes and ^(AJ)be careful to obey my rules.^{[a] 28 (AK)}You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and ^(AL)you shall be my people, and I will be your God. ²⁹ And ^(AM)I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses. And ^(AN)I will summon the grain and make it abundant and ^(AO)lay no famine upon you. ^30 (AP)I will make the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field abundant, ^(AQ)that you may never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations. ³¹ Then ^(AR)you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominations. ^32 (AS)It is not for your sake that I will act, declares the Lord God; let that be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.

³³ “Thus says the Lord God: On the day that ^(AT)I cleanse you from all your iniquities, ^(AU)I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be rebuilt. ³⁴ And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, instead of being the desolation that it was in the sight of all who passed by. ³⁵ And they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like ^(AV)the garden of Eden, and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.’ ³⁶ Then ^(AW)the nations that are left all around you shall know that I am the Lord; I have rebuilt the ruined places and ^(AX)replanted that which was desolate. ^(AY)I am the Lord; I have spoken, and I will do it.

³⁷ “Thus says the Lord God: This also ^(AZ)I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: ^(BA)to increase their people like ^(BB)a flock. ³⁸ Like the flock for sacrifices,^{[b] (BC)}like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so ^(BD)shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of people. ^(BE)Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

^27 (A)My dwelling place shall be with them, ^(B)and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. ²⁸ Then ^(C)the nations will know that ^(D)I am the Lord who sanctifies Israel, when ^(E)my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.”

²² But you have come to ^(A)Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, ^(B)the heavenly Jerusalem, and to ^(C)innumerable angels in festal gathering, ²³ and to ^(D)the assembly^[a] of the firstborn who are ^(E)enrolled in heaven, and to ^(F)God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,

¹⁰ And ^(A)he carried me away in the Spirit to ^(B)a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, ^11 (C)having the glory of God, ^(D)its radiance ^(E)like a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. ¹² It had a great, high wall, ^(F)with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel were inscribed— ¹³ on the east three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates. ¹⁴ And the wall of the city had twelve ^(G)foundations, and ^(H)on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

¹⁵ And the one who spoke with me ^(I)had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city and its gates and walls. ¹⁶ The city lies foursquare, its length the same as its width. And he measured the city with his rod, 12,000 stadia.^[a] Its length and width and height are equal. ¹⁷ He also measured its wall, 144 cubits^[b] by ^(J)human measurement, which is also ^(K)an angel's measurement. ¹⁸ The wall was built of ^(L)jasper, while the city was pure gold, like ^(M)clear glass. ^19 (N)The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every kind of jewel. The first was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, ²⁰ the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. ²¹ And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, each of the gates made of a single pearl, and ^(O)the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

²² And ^(P)I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. ²³ And the city ^(Q)has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for ^(R)the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. ²⁴ By its light ^(S)will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth ^(T)will bring their glory into it, ²⁵ and ^(U)its gates will never be shut by day—and ^(V)there will be no night there. ²⁶ They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. ²⁷ But ^(W)nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's ^(X)book of life.