^{16 Ref} it `is' ours, the land hath been given for an inheritance; therefore say: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because I put them afar off among nations, And because I scattered them through lands, I also am to them for a little sanctuary, In lands whither they have gone in.

^{17 Ref} Therefore say: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: And I have assembled you from the peoples, And I have gathered you from the lands, Into which ye have been scattered, And I have given to you the ground of Israel.

^{18 Ref} And they have gone in thither. And turned aside all its detestable things, And all its abominations -- out of it.

^{19 Ref} And I have given to them one heart, And a new spirit I do give in your midst, And I have turned the heart of stone out of their flesh, And I have given to them a heart of flesh.

^{20 Ref} So that in My statutes they walk, And My judgments they keep, and have done them, And they have been to me for a people, And I am to them for God.