19. I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through other lands; according to their behavior and their deeds I carried out judgment against them.
20. But when they came to the nations, where they went, they desecrated my holy name, for people said of them: “These are the people of the Lord, yet they had to leave their land.”
21. So I relented because of my holy name which the house of Israel desecrated among the nations to which they came.
22. Therefore say to the house of Israel: Thus says the Lord God: Not for your sake do I act, house of Israel, but for the sake of my holy name, which you desecrated among the nations to which you came.
23. But I will show the holiness of my great name, desecrated among the nations, in whose midst you desecrated it. Then the nations shall know that I am the Lord—oracle of the Lord God—when through you I show my holiness before their very eyes.
24. I will take you away from among the nations, gather you from all the lands, and bring you back to your own soil.
25. I will sprinkle clean water over you to make you clean; from all your impurities and from all your idols I will cleanse you.
26. I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
27. I will put my spirit within you so that you walk in my statutes, observe my ordinances, and keep them.
28. You will live in the land I gave to your ancestors; you will be my people, and I will be your God.
29. I will deliver you from all your impurities. I will summon the grain and make it plentiful; I will not send famine against you.