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

“‘But I will spare some of you. Some will escape the sword when you are scattered in foreign lands.

You must use just balances, a just dry measure (an ephah), and a just liquid measure (a bath).

“This is how you will divide this land for yourselves among the tribes of Israel.

Then you will live in the land I gave to your fathers; you will be my people, and I will be your God.

You will eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, at my slaughter which I have made for you.

You have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have assigned foreigners to keep charge of my sanctuary for you.

When you present your sacrifices – when you make your sons pass through the fire – you defile yourselves with all your idols to this very day. Will I allow you to seek me, O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I will not allow you to seek me!

You must allot it as an inheritance among yourselves and for the foreigners who reside among you, who have fathered sons among you. You must treat them as native-born among the people of Israel; they will be allotted an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

This city will not be a cooking pot for you, and you will not be meat within it; I will judge you at the border of Israel.

“Son of man, what is this proverb you have in the land of Israel, ‘The days pass slowly, and every vision fails’?

I will vent my rage against the wall, and against those who coated it with whitewash. Then I will say to you, “The wall is no more and those who whitewashed it are no more –

“What do you mean by quoting this proverb concerning the land of Israel, “‘The fathers eat sour grapes And the children’s teeth become numb?’

“As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, you will not quote this proverb in Israel anymore!

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

Ezekiel will be an object lesson for you; you will do all that he has done. When it happens, then you will know that I am the sovereign Lord.’

So this is what the sovereign Lord says: I vow that the nations around you will endure insults as well.

“‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Because they are saying to you, “You are a devourer of men, and bereave your nation of children,”

Understand that it is not for your sake I am about to act, declares the sovereign Lord. Be ashamed and embarrassed by your behavior, O house of Israel.

Say to the rebellious, to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Enough of all your abominable practices, O house of Israel!