Catholic Public Domain Version

Ezekiel 36:21-34 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

21. But I have spared my holy name, which the house of Israel has defiled among the Gentiles, to whom they entered.

22. For this reason, you shall say to the house of Israel: Thus says the Lord God: I will act, not for your sake, O house of Israel, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have defiled among the Gentiles, to whom you entered.

23. And I will sanctify my great name, which was defiled among the Gentiles, which you have defiled in their midst. So may the Gentiles know that I am the Lord, says the Lord of hosts, when I will have been sanctified in you, before their eyes.

24. Certainly, I will take you away from the Gentiles, and I will gather you together from all the lands, and I will lead you into your own land.

25. And I will pour clean water over you, and you shall be cleansed from all your filth, and I will cleanse you from all your idols.

26. And I will give to you a new heart, and I will place in you a new spirit. And I will take away the heart of stone from your body, and I will give to you a heart of flesh.

27. And I will place my Spirit in your midst. And I will act so that you may walk in my precepts and keep my judgments, and so that you may fulfill them.

28. And you shall live in the land that I gave to your fathers. And you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

29. And I will save you from all your filth. And I will call for grain, and I will multiply it, and I will not impose a famine upon you.

30. And I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the produce of the field, so that you may no longer bear the disgrace of famine among the nations.

31. And you shall remember your very wicked ways and your intentions, which were not good. And you will be displeased by your own iniquities and your own crimes.

32. It is not for your sakes that I will act, says the Lord God; let this be known to you. Be confounded and ashamed over your own ways, O house of Israel.

33. Thus says the Lord God: In the day when I will have cleansed you from all your iniquities, and when I will have caused the cities to be inhabited, and when I will have restored the ruinous places,

34. and when the deserted land will have been cultivated, which previously was desolate to the eyes of all who passed by,