18. You can eat the meat of warriors and drink the blood of the princes of the earth. All of them will be killed like rams, lambs, goats, bulls and all the best animals of Bashan.
19. You can eat the best meat until you are full and drink blood until you are drunk at the sacrifice that I am preparing for you.
20. At my table you will be filled with horses and riders, warriors, and soldiers of every kind, declares the Almighty Lord.’
21. “I will show my greatness among the nations. All the nations will see how I will turn my power against them to punish them.
22. From that day on, the people of Israel will know that I am the Lord their God.
23. Then the nations will know that the people of Israel went into captivity because they did wrong and rebelled against me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies. They were killed in battle.
24. I paid them back for their uncleanness and their sins, and I hid my face from them.
25. “So this is what the Almighty Lord says: Now I will bring back Jacob’s captives and have compassion for the whole nation of Israel. I will stand up for my holy name.
26. When they live safely in a land where no one will frighten them, they will forget their shame and all the unfaithful things they have done against me.
27. I will bring them back from the other nations and gather them from the countries of their enemies. Many nations will see that I am holy.
28. Then my people will know that I am the Lord their God. I sent them into captivity among the nations, and I brought them back again to their land. I left none of them behind.
29. I will no longer hide my face from them, because I will pour out my Spirit on the nation of Israel, declares the Almighty Lord.”