11. I will fill you with people and animals, and they will increase and be fruitful. I will make you inhabited as you once were and make you better off than you were before. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
12. I will cause people, My people Israel, to walk on you; they will possess you, and you will be their inheritance. You will no longer deprive them of their children.
13. “This is what the Lord God says: Because people are saying to you, ‘You devour men and deprive your nation of children,’
14. therefore, you will no longer devour men and deprive your nation of children.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.
15. “I will no longer allow the insults of the nations to be heard against you, and you will not have to endure the reproach of the peoples anymore; you will no longer cause your nation to stumble.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.
16. The word of the Lord came to me:
17. “Son of man, while the house of Israel lived in their land, they defiled it with their conduct and actions. Their behavior before Me was like menstrual impurity.
18. So I poured out My wrath on them because of the blood they had shed on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols.
19. I dispersed them among the nations, and they were scattered among the countries. I judged them according to their conduct and actions.
20. When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned My holy name, because it was said about them, ‘These are the people of Yahweh, yet they had to leave His land in exile.’
21. Then I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel profaned among the nations where they went.
22. “Therefore, say to the house of Israel: This is what the Lord God says: It is not for your sake that I will act, house of Israel, but for My holy name, which you profaned among the nations where you went.
23. I will honor the holiness of My great name, which has been profaned among the nations — the name you have profaned among them. The nations will know that I am Yahweh” — the declaration of the Lord God — “when I demonstrate My holiness through you in their sight.