12 And you shall know that I am the Lord; for you have not walked in My statutes nor executed My judgments, but ahave done according to the customs of the Gentiles which are all around you.” ’ ”
13 Now it happened, while I was prophesying, that aPelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then bI fell on my face and cried with a loud voice, and said, “Ah, Lord God! Will You make a complete end of the remnant of Israel?”
God Will Restore Israel
14 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
15 “Son of man, your brethren, your relatives, your countrymen, and all the house of Israel in its entirety, are those about whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Get far away from the Lord; this land has been given to us as a possession.’
16 Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Although I have cast them far off among the Gentiles, and although I have scattered them among the countries, ayet I shall be a little sanctuary for them in the countries where they have gone.” ’
17 Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: a“I will gather you from the peoples, assemble you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.” ’
18 And they will go there, and they will take away all its adetestable things and all its abominations from there.
19 Then aI will give them one heart, and I will put ba new spirit within them, and take cthe stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh,
20 athat they may walk in My statutes and keep My judgments and do them; band they shall be My people, and I will be their God.
21 But as for those whose hearts follow the desire for their detestable things and their abominations, aI will recompense their deeds on their own heads,” says the Lord God.
22 So the cherubim alifted up their wings, with the wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel was high above them.
23 And athe glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city and stood bon the mountain, cwhich is on the east side of the city.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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