Ezekiel 39:25–40:4

25 “So this is what the Lord God says: Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacobj and have compassion on the whole house of Israel,k and I will be jealous for my holy name. 26 They will feel remorse forB,C their disgracel and all the unfaithfulness they committed against me, when they live securely in their land with no one to frighten them. 27 When I bring them back from the peoples and gather them from the countries of their enemies, I will demonstrate my holiness through them in the sight of many nations.m 28 They will know that I am the Lord their God when I regather them to their own land after having exiled them among the nations. I will leave none of them behind.D 29 I will no longer hide my face from them, for I will pour out my Spirit on the house of Israel.”n This is the declaration of the Lord God.

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 Jerusalem had been captured,o on that very day the Lord’s hand was on me,p and he brought me there. 2 In visions of Godq he took me to the land of Israel and set me down on a very high mountain.r On its southern slope was a structure resembling a city. 3 He brought me there, and I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze,s with a linen cord and a measuring rod in his hand.t He was standing by the city gate. 4 He spoke to me: “Son of man, look with your eyes, listen with your ears,u and pay attention to everything I am going to show you, for you have been brought here so that I might show it to you. Report everything you see to the house of Israel.”a