Ezekiel 11:14-25 (NRSV)

Judgment and promised restoration

Then the word of the Lord came to me: Mortal, your kinsfolk, your own kin, your
fellow exiles, the whole house of Israel, all of them, are those of whom the
inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, "They have gone far from the Lord; to us this
land is given for a possession." Therefore say: Thus says the Lord God: Though
I removed them far away among the nations, and though I scattered them among
the countries, yet I have been a sanctuary to them for a little while in the
countries where they have gone. Therefore say: Thus says the Lord God: I will
gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you
have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. When they come
there, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations. I
will give them one heart, and put a new spirit within them; I will remove the heart
of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, so that they may follow
my statutes and keep my ordinances and obey them. Then they shall be my
people, and I will be their God. But as for those whose heart goes after their
detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their deeds upon their own
heads, says the Lord God.

Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, with the wheels beside them; and the
glory of the God of Israel was above them. And the glory of the Lord ascended
from the middle of the city, and stopped on the mountain east of the city. The
spirit lifted me up and brought me in a vision by the spirit of God into Chaldea, to
the exiles. Then the vision that I had seen left me. And I told the exiles all the
things that the Lord had shown me.