11. And I will multiply on you man and beast, and they shall multiply and be fruitful. And I will cause you to be inhabited as in your former times, and will do more good to you than ever before. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
12. I will let people walk on you, even my people Israel. And they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no longer bereave them of children.
13. Thus says the Lord God: Because they say to you, ‘You devour people, and you bereave your nation of children,’
14. therefore you shall no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the Lord God.
15. And I will not let you hear anymore the reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord God.”
16. The word of the Lord came to me:
17. “Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds. Their ways before me were like the uncleanness of a woman in her menstrual impurity.
18. So I poured out my wrath upon them for the blood that they had shed in the land, for the idols with which they had defiled it.
19. I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. In accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them.
20. But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, and yet they had to go out of his land.’