Ezekiel 11:14–21

Promise of Restoration

14 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

15 “Son of man, your brothers, your 1relatives, 2your fellow exiles and the whole house of Israel, all of them, are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far from the Lord; this land has been given aus as a possession.’

16 “Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Though I had removed them far away among the nations and though I had scattered them among the countries, yet I was a asanctuary for them a little while in the countries where they had gone.” ’

17 “Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “I will agather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries among which you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.” ’

18 “When they come there, they will aremove all its bdetestable things and all its abominations from it.

19 “And I will agive them one heart, and put a new spirit within 1them. And I will take the bheart of stone out of their flesh and give them a cheart of flesh,

20 that they may awalk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and do them. Then they will be bMy people, and I shall be their God.

21 “1But as for those whose hearts go after their adetestable things and abominations, I will bbring their conduct down on their heads,” declares the Lord God.