8. The sword you have feared, and the sword I will bring against you!” declares the Lord Yahweh.
9. “And I will bring you out from its midst, and I will give you into the hand of strangers, and I will execute judgments against you.
10. By the sword you will fall at the border of Israel; I will judge you, and you will know that I am Yahweh.
11. It will not be as a pot to you, and so you would be in the midst of it as flesh, for at the border of Israel I will judge you.
12. And you will know that I am Yahweh, whose rules you did not follow, and whose regulations you did not do, but according to the regulations of the nations that are around you, you acted.” ’
13. And it happened that as I was prophesying, Pelatiahu the son of Benaiahu died! And I fell on my face, and I cried with a loud voice, and I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh, you are making a complete destruction of the remnant of Israel!”
14. And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
15. “Son of man, your brothers, your brothers, the men of your redemption, and all of the house of Israel, all of it, who said concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, ‘They are far from Yahweh, therefore to us this land was given as a possession.’
16. Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Though I have removed them far away among the nations and though I have scattered them among the countries, yet I was a sanctuary to them for a little while in the countries to which they have gone.’ ”
17. Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “And I will assemble you from the peoples, and I will gather you from the countries to which you were scattered among them, and I will give the land of Israel to you.
18. And when they come there, then they will remove all of its vile idols and all of its detestable things from it.
19. And I will give to them one heart, and a new spirit I will give in their inner parts. And I will remove their heart of stone from their body, and I will give to them a heart of flesh,
20. so that they may walk in my statutes, and they will keep my regulations, and they will do them, and they will be to me a people, and I myself will be to them as God.