13. While I was prophesying, Pelatiah, the son of Benaiah, dropped dead. I fell down on my face and cried out in a loud voice: “Alas, Lord God! You are finishing off what remains of Israel!”
14. The word of the Lord came to me:
15. Son of man, the inhabitants of Jerusalem are saying about all your relatives, the other exiles, and all the house of Israel, “They are far away from the Lord. The land is given to us as a possession.”
16. Therefore say: Thus says the Lord God: I have indeed sent them far away among the nations, scattered them over the lands, and have been but little sanctuary for them in the lands to which they have gone.
17. Therefore, thus says the Lord God, I will gather you from the nations and collect you from the lands through which you were scattered, so I can give you the land of Israel.
18. They will enter it and remove all its atrocities and abominations.
19. And I will give them another heart and a new spirit I will put within them. From their bodies I will remove the hearts of stone, and give them hearts of flesh,
20. so that they walk according to my statutes, taking care to keep my ordinances. Thus they will be my people, and I will be their God.
21. But as for those whose hearts are devoted to their atrocities and abominations, I will bring their conduct down upon their heads—oracle of the Lord God.
22. Then the cherubim lifted their wings and the wheels alongside them, with the glory of the God of Israel above them.
23. The glory of the Lord rose up from the middle of the city and came to rest on the mountain east of the city.