3 He put out the form of a hand and took me by a lock of my head, and ^hthe Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and brought me in ⁱvisions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the gateway of the inner court that faces north, where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which ^jprovokes to jealousy. 4 And behold, the ^kglory of the God of Israel was there, ^llike the vision that I saw in the valley.

5 Then he said to me, “Son of man, lift up your eyes now toward the north.” So I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and behold, north of the altar gate, in the entrance, was this image of jealousy.

38 And I will ⁿjudge you as women who commit ^oadultery and ^pshed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

42 So will I ^ssatisfy my wrath on you, and my jealousy shall depart from you. I will be calm and will no more be angry.

25 And I will direct my jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in fury. They shall cut off your nose and your ears, and your survivors shall fall by the sword. They shall seize your sons and your daughters, and your survivors shall be devoured by fire.

5 therefore thus says the Lord God: Surely I have ^lspoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted ^mjoy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey. 6 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I have spoken in my jealous wrath, because you have suffered the ⁿreproach of the nations. 7 Therefore thus says the Lord God: I swear that the nations that are all around you shall themselves suffer reproach.

8 “But you, O mountains of Israel, shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to my people Israel, for they will soon come home. 9 For behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown. 10 And I will multiply people on you, the whole house of Israel, all of it. ^oThe cities shall be inhabited and the waste places rebuilt. 11 ^pAnd I will multiply on you man and beast, and they shall ^qmultiply and be fruitful. And I will cause you to be inhabited as in your former times, and will do more good to you than ever before. Then you will know that I am the Lord. 12 I will let people walk on you, even my people Israel. And they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no longer bereave them of children. 13 Thus says the Lord God: Because they say to you, ‘You ^rdevour people, and you bereave your nation of children,’ 14 therefore you shall no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the Lord God. 15 And I will not let you hear anymore the reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord God.”

16 The word of the Lord came to me: 17 “Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they ^sdefiled it by their ways and their deeds. Their ways before me were like the uncleanness of a woman in her ^tmenstrual impurity. 18 So I ^upoured out my wrath upon them for the ^vblood that they had shed in the land, for the idols with which they had defiled it. 19 I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. ^wIn accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them. 20 But ^xwhen they came to the nations, wherever they came, they ^yprofaned my holy name, in that people said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, and yet they had to go out of his land.’ 21 But I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they came.

22 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: ^zIt is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but ^afor the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came. 23 And I will ^bvindicate 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, declares the Lord God, when through you I vindicate my holiness ^cbefore their eyes. 24 I will take you from the nations and ^dgather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land. 25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your ^euncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. 26 ^fAnd I will ^ggive you a new heart, and a ^hnew spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And ⁱI will put my Spirit ^jwithin you, and cause you to ^kwalk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.¹ 28 You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God. 29 And I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses. And I will summon the grain and make it abundant and lay ^lno famine upon you. 30 I will make the ^mfruit of the tree and the increase of the field abundant, that you may never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations. 31 Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good, and you will ⁿloathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominations. 32 It is not for your sake that I will act, declares the Lord God; let that be known to you. ^oBe ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.

33 “Thus says the Lord God: On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, ^pI will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be rebuilt. 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. 35 And they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become ^qlike the garden of Eden, and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.’ 36 Then the nations that are left all around you shall know that I am the Lord; I have ^rrebuilt the ruined places and replanted that which was desolate. I am the Lord; I have spoken, and I will do it.

37 “Thus says the Lord God: This also I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: to increase their people like a flock. 38 Like the flock for sacrifices,² like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”