God Will Restore Israel

¹⁴ Then the word of the Lord came to me: ¹⁵ Mortal, your kinsfolk, your own kin, your fellow exiles,^[a] the whole house of Israel, all of them, are those of whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, “Stay far from the Lord; to us this land is given for a possession.”^{(A) 16} Therefore say: Thus says the Lord God: Though I removed them far away among the nations and though I scattered them among the countries, yet I have been a sanctuary to them for a little while^[b] in the countries where they have gone.^{(B) 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.^{(C) 18} When they come there, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.^{(D) 19} I will give them one heart and put a new spirit within them;^[c] I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,^{(E) 20} so that they may follow my statutes and keep my ordinances and obey them. Then they shall be my people, and I will be their God.^{(F) 21} But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations,^[d] I will bring their deeds upon their own heads, says the Lord God.^(G)

²² Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, with the wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them.^{(H) 23} And the glory of the Lord ascended from the middle of the city and stopped on the mountain east of the city.^{(I) 24} The spirit lifted me up and brought me in a vision by the spirit of God into Chaldea, to the exiles. Then the vision that I had seen left me. ²⁵ And I told the exiles all the things that the Lord had shown me.