8. You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you,” says the Lord GOD.
9. “I will bring you out of the middle of it, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
10. You will fall by the sword. I will judge you in the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
11. This will not be your cauldron, neither will you be the meat in the middle of it. I will judge you in the border of Israel.
12. You will know that I am the Lord, for you have not walked in my statutes, You have not executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are around you.”’”
13. When I prophesied, Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down on my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, “Ah Lord GOD! will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?”
14. the Lord’s word came to me, saying,
15. “Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your relatives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, are they to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far away from the Lord. This land has been given to us for a possession.’”
16. “Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Whereas I have removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet I will be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they have come.”’
17. “Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “I will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you Eretz-Israel.”
18. “‘They will come there, and they will take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from there.
19. I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;
20. that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
21. But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way on their own heads,’ says the Lord GOD.”
22. Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels were beside them. The glory of the God of Israel was over them above.