16. The word of Adonai came to me saying:
17. “Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their way and by their deeds. Their way before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman in her niddah .
18. So I poured out My fury on them for the blood which they had shed upon the land and because they had defiled it with their idols.
19. I scattered them among the nations, so they were dispersed through the countries. According to their way and their deeds I judged them.
20. Wherever they went among the nations, they profaned My holy Name, since it was said about them, ‘These are the people of Adonai, yet they had to leave His land.’
21. But I had concern for My holy Name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations wherever they went.
22. “Therefore say to the house of Israel, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘I do not do this for your sake, house of Israel, but for My holy Name, which you profaned among the nations wherever you went.