11. This city will not be a pot for you, nor will you be flesh in the midst of it, but I will judge you to the border of Israel.
12. Thus you will know that I am the Lord; for you have not walked in My statutes nor have you executed My ordinances, but have acted according to the ordinances of the nations around you."'"
13. Now it came about as I prophesied, that Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell on my face and cried out with a loud voice and said, "Alas, Lord God! Will You bring the remnant of Israel to a complete end?"
14. Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
15. "Son of man, your brothers, your relatives, your fellow exiles and the whole house of Israel, all of them, are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, 'Go far from the Lord; this land has been given us as a possession.'
16. Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord God, "Though I had removed them far away among the nations and though I had scattered them among the countries, yet I was a sanctuary for them a little while in the countries where they had gone."'
17. Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord God, "I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries among which you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel."'
18. When they come there, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations from it.
19. And I will give them one heart, and put a new spirit within them. And I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,
20. that they may walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and do them. Then they will be My people, and I shall be their God.
21. But as for those whose hearts go after their detestable things and abominations, I will bring their conduct down on their heads," declares the Lord God.