Ezekiel 36:24–38

²⁴“ ‘I will take you from the nations and gather you from every country. I will bring you back to your own land. ²⁵I will sprinkle clean water on you and make you clean^binstead of unclean. Then I will cleanse you from all your idols. ²⁶I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you. I will remove your stubborn hearts and give you obedient hearts. ²⁷I will put my Spirit in you. I will enable you to live by my laws, and you will obey my rules. ²⁸Then you will live in the land that I gave your ancestors. You will be my people, and I will be your God. ²⁹I will rescue you from all your uncleanness. I will make the grain grow so that you will never again have famines. ³⁰I will make fruit grow on the trees and crops grow in the fields so that you will no longer suffer disgrace among the nations because of famines. ³¹Then you will remember your evil ways and the bad things that you did, and you will hate yourselves for all these wicked and disgusting things. ³²I want you to know that I’m not doing this for your sake, declares the Almighty Lord. Be ashamed and disgraced because of your ways, people of Israel. 

³³“ ‘This is what the Almighty Lord says: On the day that I cleanse you from all your wickedness, I will cause your cities to be lived in again, and your ruins will be rebuilt. ³⁴The wasteland will be plowed. It will no longer remain empty for everyone passing by to see. ³⁵People will say, “This wasteland has become like the garden of Eden. The cities were destroyed. They were empty and ruined, but now they are fortified and have people living in them.” ³⁶The surrounding nations that are left will know that I, the Lord, have rebuilt the ruined places and planted crops in the land that was empty. I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it.’ 

³⁷“This is what the Almighty Lord says: I will also let the people of Israel ask me to make them as numerous as sheep. ³⁸They will be like the sheep for sacrifices, like the sheep in Jerusalem during the appointed festivals. Their ruined cities will be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”