Ezekiel 18:31

18:31 Throw away all your sins you have committed and fashion yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! 1  Why should you die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 36:26

36:26 I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone 2  from your body and give you a heart of flesh. 3 

Ezekiel 11:19

11:19 I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within them; 4  I will remove the hearts of stone from their bodies 5  and I will give them tender hearts, 6 

1 sn In Ezek 11:19, 36:26 the new heart and new spirit are promised as future blessings.

2 sn That is, a heart which symbolizes a will that is stubborn and unresponsive (see 1 Sam 25:37). In Rabbinic literature a “stone” was associated with an evil inclination (b. Sukkah 52a).

3 sn That is, a heart which symbolizes a will that is responsive and obedient to God.

3 tc The MT reads “you”; many Hebrew mss along with the LXX and other ancient versions read “within them.”

4 tn Heb “their flesh.”

5 tn Heb “heart of flesh.”