12. For seven months the house of Israel shall bury them in order to cleanse the land.
13. All the people of the land shall take part in the burials, making a name for themselves on the day I am glorified—oracle of the Lord God.
14. Men shall be permanently assigned to pass through the land, burying those who lie unburied in order to cleanse the land. For seven months they shall keep searching.
15. When these pass through the land and see a human bone, they must set up a marker beside it, until the gravediggers bury it in the Valley of Hamon-Gog.
16. Also the name of the city is Hamonah. Thus the land will be cleansed.
17. As for you, son of man, thus says the Lord God: Say to birds of every kind and to every wild beast: “Assemble! Come from all sides for the sacrifice I am making for you, a great slaughter on the mountains of Israel. You shall eat flesh and drink blood!
18. You shall eat the flesh of warriors and drink the blood of the princes of the earth: rams, lambs, and goats, bulls and fatlings from Bashan, all of them.
19. From the sacrifice I slaughtered for you, you shall eat fat until you are sated and drink blood until you are drunk.
20. At my table you shall be sated with horse and rider, with warrior and soldier of every kind—oracle of the Lord God.
21. Then I will display my glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the judgment I executed, the hand I laid upon them.
22. From that day forward the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord, their God.
23. The nations shall know that the house of Israel went into exile because of its sins. Because they betrayed me, I hid my face from them, handing them over to their foes, so they all fell by the sword.
24. According to their defilement and their crimes I dealt with them, hiding my face from them.