^{24 Ref} For I will take you out from among the nations, and get you together from all the countries, and take you into your land.

^{25 Ref} And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.

^{26 Ref} And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you: I will take away the heart of stone from your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh.

^{27 Ref} And I will put my spirit in you, causing you to be guided by my rules, and you will keep my orders and do them.

^{28 Ref} So that you may go on living in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you will be to me a people, and I will be to you a God.

^{29 Ref} And I will make you free from all your unclean ways: and at my voice the grain will come up and be increased, and I will not let you be short of food.

^{30 Ref} And I will make the tree give more fruit and the field fuller produce, and no longer will you be shamed among the nations for need of food.

^{31 Ref} And at the memory of your evil ways and your wrongdoings, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of your evil-doings and your disgusting ways, O children of Israel.

^{32 Ref} Not because of you am I doing it, says the Lord; let it be clear to you, and be shamed and made low because of your ways, O children of Israel.

^{33 Ref} This is what the Lord has said: In the day when I make you clean from all your evil-doings I will let the towns be peopled and there will be building on the waste places.

^{34 Ref} And the land which was waste will be farmed, in place of being a waste in the eyes of everyone who went by.

^{35 Ref} And they will say, This land which was waste has become like the garden of Eden; and the towns which were unpeopled and wasted and pulled down are walled and peopled.

^{36 Ref} Then the rest of the nations round about you will be certain that I the Lord am the builder of the places which were pulled down and the planter of that which was waste: I the Lord have said it, and I will do it.

^{37 Ref} This is what the Lord has said: The children of Israel will again make prayer to me for this, that I may do it for them; I will make them increased with men like a flock.

^{38 Ref} Like sheep for the offerings, like the sheep of Jerusalem at her fixed feasts, so the unpeopled towns will be made full of men: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.