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.
30. I will increase the fruit on your trees and the crops in your fields so that you no longer endure reproach from the nations because of famine.
31. Then you will remember your evil behavior and your deeds that were not good; you will loathe yourselves for your sins and your abominations.
32. Not for your sake do I act—oracle of the Lord God. Let this be known to you! Be ashamed and humbled because of your behavior, house of Israel.
33. Thus says the Lord God: When I cleanse you of all your guilt, I will resettle the cities and the ruins will be rebuilt.
34. The desolate land will be tilled—once a wasteland in the eyes of every passerby.
35. They will say, “This once-desolate land has become like the garden of Eden. The cities once ruined, laid waste and destroyed, are now resettled and fortified.”
36. Then the surrounding nations that remain shall know that I, the Lord, have rebuilt what was destroyed and replanted what was desolate. I, the Lord, have spoken: I will do it.
37. Thus says the Lord God: This also I will be persuaded to do for the house of Israel: to multiply them like sheep.
38. Like sheep for sacrifice, like the sheep of Jerusalem on its feast days, the ruined cities shall be filled with flocks of people; then they shall know that I am the Lord.