17. “Human, when the nation of Israel was living in their own land, they made it unclean by their ways and the things they did. Their ways were like a woman’s uncleanness in her time of monthly bleeding.
18. So I poured out my anger against them, because they murdered in the land and because they made the land unclean with their idols.
19. I scattered them among the nations, and they were spread through the countries. I punished them for how they lived and what they did.
20. They dishonored my holy name in the nations where they went. The nations said about them ‘These are the people of the Lord, but they had to leave the land which he gave them.’
21. But I had concern for my holy name, which the nation of Israel had dishonored among the nations where they went.
22. “So say to the people of Israel, ‘This is what the Lord God says: Israel, I am going to act, but not for your sake. I will do something to help my holy name, which you have dishonored among the nations where you went.