Ezekiel 36:20–38

²⁰And one goeth in unto the nations whither they have gone, And they pollute My holy name by saying to them, The people of Jehovah are these, And from His land they have gone forth. ²¹And I have pity on My holy name, That the house of Israel have polluted among nations whither they have gone in. ²²Therefore, say to the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Not for your sake am I working, O house of Israel, But—for My holy name, That ye have polluted among nations whither ye have gone in. ²³And I have sanctified My great name, That is profaned among nations, That ye have polluted in your midst, And known have the nations that I am Jehovah, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, In My being sanctified in you before your eyes. ²⁴And I have taken you out of the nations, And have gathered you out of all the lands, And I have brought you in unto your land,

²⁵And I have sprinkled over you clean water, And ye have been clean; From all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, I do cleanse you. ²⁶And I have given to you a new heart, And a new spirit I give in your midst, And I have turned aside the heart of stone out of your flesh, And I have given to you a heart of flesh. ²⁷And My Spirit I give in your midst, And I have done this, so that in My statutes ye walk, And My judgments ye keep, and have done them. ²⁸And ye have dwelt in the land that I have given to your fathers, And ye have been to Me for a people, And I—I am to you for God. ²⁹And I have saved you from all your uncleannesses, And I have called unto the corn, and multiplied it, And I have put no famine upon you. ³⁰And I have multiplied the fruit of the tree, And the increase of the field, So that ye receive not any more a reproach of famine among nations. ³¹And ye have remembered your ways that are evil, And your doings that are not good, And have been loathsome in your own faces, For your iniquities, and for your abominations. ³²Not for your sake am I working, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Be it known to you, Be ashamed and confounded, because of your ways, O house of Israel. ³³Thus said the Lord Jehovah: In the day of My cleansing you from all your iniquities, I have caused the cities to be inhabited, And the wastes have been built, ³⁴And the desolate land is tilled, Instead of which it was a desolation before the eyes of every passer by, ³⁵And they have said: This land, that was desolated, Hath been as the garden of Eden, And the cities—the wasted, And the desolated, and the broken down, Fenced places have remained. ³⁶And known have the nations who are left round about you, That I Jehovah have built the thrown down, I have planted the desolated: I Jehovah have spoken, and I have done it. ³⁷Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Yet this I am required, By the house of Israel to do to them, I multiply them as a flock of men, ³⁸As a flock of holy ones, as a flock of Jerusalem, In her appointed seasons, So are the waste cities full of flocks of men, And they have known that I am Jehovah!’

Chapter 37