9. I will bring you out of the city, hand you over to foreigners, and execute judgments against you.
10. By the sword you shall fall. At the borders of Israel I will judge you so that you will know that I am the Lord.
11. The city shall not be a pot for you, nor shall you be meat within it. At the borders of Israel I will judge you,
12. so you shall know that I am the Lord, whose statutes you did not follow, whose ordinances you did not keep. Instead, you acted according to the ordinances of the nations around you.
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,