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.
23. I will prove the holiness of my great name, which has been dishonored among the nations. You have dishonored it among these nations, but the nations will know that I am the Lord when I prove myself holy before their eyes, says the Lord God.
24. “ ‘I will take you from the nations and gather you out of all the lands and bring you back into your own land.
25. Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your uncleanness and your idols.
26. Also, I will teach you to respect me completely, and I will put a new way of thinking inside you. I will take out the stubborn hearts of stone from your bodies, and I will give you obedient hearts of flesh.
27. I will put my Spirit inside you and help you live by my rules and carefully obey my laws.
28. You will live in the land I gave to your ancestors, and you will be my people, and I will be your God.
29. So I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will command the grain to come and grow; I will not allow a time of hunger to hurt you.
30. I will increase the harvest of the field so you will never again suffer shame among the nations because of hunger.