18. You will eat the meat from the bodies of powerful soldiers and drink the blood from world leaders. They will be like rams, lambs, goats, and fat bulls from Bashan.
19. You can eat all the fat you want and drink blood until you are full. You will eat and drink from my sacrifice, which I will kill for you.
20. You will have plenty of meat to eat at my table. There will be horses and chariot drivers, powerful soldiers, and all the other fighting men.’” This is what the Lord GOD said.
21. “I will let the other nations see what I have done, and they will begin to respect me! They will see my power that I used against the enemy.
22. Then from that day on, the family of Israel will know that I am the Lord their God.
23. And the nations will know why the family of Israel was carried away as prisoners to other countries. They will learn that my people turned against me, so I turned away from them. I let their enemies defeat them, so my people were killed in battle.
24. They sinned and made themselves filthy, so I punished them for the things they did. I turned away from them and refused to help them.”
25. So this is what the Lord GOD says: “Now I will bring the family of Jacob back from captivity. I will have mercy on the whole family of Israel. I will show my strong feelings for my holy name.
26. The people will forget their shame and all the times they turned against me. They will live in safety on their own land. No one will make them afraid.
27. I will bring my people back from other countries. I will gather them from the lands of their enemies. Then many nations will see how holy I am.
28. They will know that I am the Lord their God. That is because I made them leave their homes and go as prisoners to other countries. But then I gathered them together again and brought them back to their own land.