The Departure of God's Glory and Promise of Restoration
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Chapter 11
16Therefore I said, Thus says the Lord GOD: because you have distanced them among the nations and because you have scattered them in lands, I will be to them a little sanctuary in the lands where they have come.17Therefore say, Thus says the Lord GOD: I will gather you from the peoples, and I will assemble you from the lands where you were scattered among them, and I will give you the land of Israel.18And they will come there and remove all its abominations and idols and all its abominations from it.19And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you, and I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh, and I will give them a heart of flesh.20so that they walk in my statutes and keep my judgments and do them, and they be to me for a people and I be to them for God.21But as for those whose heart goes after their heart of their detestable things, I will bring their ways upon their own heads, says the Lord GOD.22The cherubim lifted their wings, and the wheels alongside them, and the glory of the God of Israel was over them from above.23The glory of the LORD went up from the middle of the city and stood on the mountain east of the city.24A spirit lifted me and brought me to the Chaldeans, to the exiles, in a vision by the spirit of God, and the vision that I saw went up from me.25And I spoke to the exiles all the words of the LORD that he had shown me.