14. You will not destroy people anymore. You will not make your nation stumble anymore, says the Lord God.
15. I will not make you listen to insults from the nations anymore. You will not suffer shame from them anymore, says the Lord God.’”
16. The Lord spoke his word to me again. He said:
17. “Human being, the nation of Israel was living in their own land. But 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. I did it because of the murders they did in the land. And I did it because they made the land unclean with their idols.
19. I scattered them among the nations. And they were spread through all the countries. I punished them for how they lived and the things 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 felt bad about my holy name. The nation of Israel had dishonored it 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. Israel, I will do something to help my holy name. You have dishonored it among the nations where you went.
23. I will prove the holiness of my great name. It has been dishonored among the nations. You have dishonored it among these nations. But the nations will know that I am the Lord. I will prove myself holy before their eyes, says the Lord God.
24. “‘I will take you from the nations. I will gather you out of all the lands. And I will 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.