rsv Ezekiel:36:22-38
rsv@Ezekiel:36:22 @ "Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came.
rsv@Ezekiel:36:23 @ And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them; and the nations will know that I am the LORD, says the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
rsv@Ezekiel:36:24 @ For I will take you from the nations, and gather you from all the countries, and bring you into your own land.
rsv@Ezekiel:36:25 @ I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.
rsv@Ezekiel:36:26 @ A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will take out of your flesh the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
rsv@Ezekiel:36:27 @ And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances.
rsv@Ezekiel:36:28 @ You shall dwell in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
rsv@Ezekiel:36:29 @ And I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses; and I will summon the grain and make it abundant and lay no famine upon you.
rsv@Ezekiel:36:30 @ I will make the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field abundant, that you may never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations.
rsv@Ezekiel:36:31 @ Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good; and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominable deeds.
rsv@Ezekiel:36:32 @ It is not for your sake that I will act, says the Lord GOD; let that be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.
rsv@Ezekiel:36:33 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be rebuilt.
rsv@Ezekiel:36:34 @ And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, instead of being the desolation that it was in the sight of all who passed by.
rsv@Ezekiel:36:35 @ And they will say, `This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are now inhabited and fortified.'
rsv@Ezekiel:36:36 @ Then the nations that are left round about you shall know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt the ruined places, and replanted that which was desolate; I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it.
rsv@Ezekiel:36:37 @ "Thus says the Lord GOD: This also I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: to increase their men like a flock.
rsv@Ezekiel:36:38 @ Like the flock for sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men. Then they will know that I am the LORD."
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