Ezekiel 11:14-21

¹⁴Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ¹⁵“Son of man, your brothers, your relatives, your fellow exiles, and the entire house of Israel, all of them, are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Keep far from the Lord; this land has been given to us as a possession.’ ¹⁶Therefore say, ‘This is what the Lord God says: “Though I had removed them far away among the nations, and though I had scattered them among the countries, yet I was a sanctuary for them for a little while in the countries where they had gone.” ’ ¹⁷Therefore say, ‘This is what the Lord God says: “I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you from the countries among which you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.” ’ ¹⁸When they come there, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations from it. ¹⁹And I will give them one heart, and put a new spirit within them. And I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, ²⁰so that they may walk in My statutes, and keep My ordinances and do them. Then they will be My people, and I shall be their God. ²¹But as for those whose hearts go after their detestable things and abominations, I will bring their conduct down on their heads,” declares the Lord God.