15. “Son of man, your brothers, your relatives, and the whole house of Israel, all of them are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘They have gone far away from the Lord; to us this land has been given as a possession.’
16. “Therefore say: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Although I have removed them far away among the nations and have dispersed them among the countries, I have been a little sanctuary for them among the lands where they have gone.’
17. “Therefore say: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: When I regather you from the peoples and assemble you from the lands where you have been dispersed, I will give you back the country of Israel.’
18. “When they return to it, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.
19. I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within them; I will remove the hearts of stone from their bodies and I will give them tender hearts,
20. so that they may follow my statutes and observe my regulations and carry them out. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.
21. But those whose hearts are devoted to detestable things and abominations, I hereby repay them for what they have done, says the sovereign Lord.”
22. Then the cherubim spread their wings with their wheels alongside them while the glory of the God of Israel hovered above them.
23. The glory of the Lord rose up from within the city and stopped over the mountain east of it.
24. Then a wind lifted me up and carried me to the exiles in Babylonia, in the vision given to me by the Spirit of God. Then the vision I had seen went up from me.
25. So I told the exiles everything the Lord had shown me.