12. Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no more henceforth bereave them of children.
13. Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because they say to you, You are a devourer of men, and have been a bereaver of your nation;
14. therefore you shall devour men no more, neither bereave your nation any more, says the Lord Yahweh;
15. neither will I let you hear any more the shame of the nations, neither shall you bear the reproach of the peoples any more, neither shall you cause your nation to stumble any more, says the Lord Yahweh.
16. Moreover Yahweh’s word 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 doings: their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.
18. Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols;
19. and I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.
20. When they came to the nations, where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, These are the people of Yahweh, and are gone out of his land.
21. But I had respect for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations, where they went.
22. Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I don’t do this for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations, where you went.
23. I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned among them; and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, says the Lord Yahweh, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
24. For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.
25. I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
26. I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.