11. I will multiply man and animal on you. They will increase and be fruitful. I will cause you to be inhabited as you were before, and you will do better than at your beginnings. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
12. Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even my people Israel. They will possess you, and you will be their inheritance, and you will never again bereave them of their children.”
13. “‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Because they say to you, ‘You are a devourer of men, and have been a bereaver of your nation;’
14. therefore you shall devour men no more, and not bereave your nation any more,” says the Lord GOD.
15. “I won’t let you hear the shame of the nations any more. You won’t bear the reproach of the peoples any more, and you won’t cause your nation to stumble any more,” says the Lord GOD.’”
16. Moreover the Lord’s word came to me, saying,
17. “Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and by their deeds. Their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.
18. Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols.
19. I scattered them amongst the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. I judged them according to their way and according to their deeds.
20. When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, ‘These are the Lord’s people, and have left his land.’
21. But I had respect for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned amongst the nations where they went.
22. “Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “I don’t do this for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned amongst the nations where you went.