9. For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you will be cultivated and sown.
10. I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities will be inhabited and the waste places will be rebuilt.
11. I will multiply on you man and beast; and they will increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited as you were formerly and will treat you better than at the first. Thus you will know that I am the Lord.
12. Yes, I will cause men-My people Israel-to walk on you and possess you, so that you will become their inheritance and never again bereave them of children.'
13. "Thus says the Lord God, 'Because they say to you, "You are a devourer of men and have bereaved your nation of children,"
14. therefore you will no longer devour men and no longer bereave your nation of children,' declares the Lord God.
15. "I will not let you hear insults from the nations anymore, nor will you bear disgrace from the peoples any longer, nor will you cause your nation to stumble any longer," declares the Lord God.'"
16. Then the word of the Lord came to me saying,
17. "Son of man, when the house of Israel was living in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds; their way before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.