You mix uncleanness with obscene conduct. I tried to cleanse you, but you are not clean. You will not be cleansed from your uncleanness until I have exhausted my anger on you.

I will sprinkle you with pure water and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols.

(A city by the name of Hamonah will also be there.) They will cleanse the land.’

For seven months Israel will bury them, in order to cleanse the land.

For seven days they will make atonement for the altar and cleanse it, so they will consecrate it.

“Son of man, say to her: ‘You are a land that receives no rain or showers in the day of my anger.’

“‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: In the day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will populate the cities and the ruins will be rebuilt.

They will designate men to scout continually through the land, burying those who remain on the surface of the ground, in order to cleanse it. They will search for seven full months.

They will not defile themselves with their idols, their detestable things, and all their rebellious deeds. I will save them from all their unfaithfulness by which they sinned. I will purify them; they will become my people and I will become their God.