11:14 Then the word of the Lord came to me: 11:15 “Son of man, your brothers, 1 your relatives, 2 and the whole house of Israel, all of them are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem 3 have said, ‘They have gone 4 far away from the Lord; to us this land has been given as a possession.’
11:16 “Therefore say: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Although I have removed them far away among the nations and have dispersed them among the countries, I have been a little 5 sanctuary for them among the lands where they have gone.’
11:17 “Therefore say: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: When I regather you from the peoples and assemble you from the lands where you have been dispersed, I will give you back the country of Israel.’
11:18 “When they return to it, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations. 11:19 I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within them; 6 I will remove the hearts of stone from their bodies 7 and I will give them tender hearts, 8 11:20 so that they may follow my statutes and observe my regulations and carry them out. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God. 9 11:21 But those whose hearts are devoted to detestable things and abominations, I hereby repay them for what they have done, 10 says the sovereign Lord.”
11:22 Then the cherubim spread 11 their wings with their wheels alongside them while the glory of the God of Israel hovered above them. 11:23 The glory of the Lord rose up from within the city and stopped 12 over the mountain east of it. 11:24 Then a wind 13 lifted me up and carried me to the exiles in Babylonia, 14 in the vision given to me by the Spirit of God.
Then the vision I had seen went up from me. 11:25 So I told the exiles everything 15 the Lord had shown me.