9. For lo I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be ploughed and sown.
10. And I will multiply men upon you, and all the house of Israel: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the ruinous places shall be repaired.
11. And I will make you abound with men and with beasts: and they shall be multiplied, and increased: and I will settle you as from the beginning, and will give you greater gifts, than you had from the beginning: and you shall know that I am the Lord.
12. And I will bring men upon you, my people Israel, and they shall possess thee for their inheritance: and thou shalt be their inheritance, and shalt no more henceforth be without them.
13. Thus saith the Lord God: Because they say of you: Thou art a devourer of men, and one that suffocatest thy nation:
14. Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, nor destroy thy nation any more, saith the Lord God:
15. Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the nations any more, nor shalt thou bear the reproach of the people, nor lose thy nation any more, saith the Lord God.
16. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
17. Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it with their ways, and with their doings: their way was before me like the uncleanness of a menstruous woman.
18. And I poured out my indignation upon them for the blood which they had shed upon the land, and with their idols they defiled it.
19. And I scattered them among the nations, and they are dispersed through the countries: I have judged them according to their ways, and their devices.
20. And when they entered among the nations whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when it was said of them: This is the people of the Lord, and they are come forth out of his land.