I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone<n id="1" /> from your body and give you a heart of flesh.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;But I will spare some of you. Some will escape the sword when you are scattered in foreign lands.<n id="1" />

You must use just balances,<n id="1" /> a just dry measure (an ephah),<n id="2" /> and a just liquid measure (a bath).<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;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.<n id="1" />

You will eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk,<n id="1" /> at my slaughter<n id="2" /> which I have made for you.

You have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have assigned foreigners<n id="1" /> to keep charge of my sanctuary for you.

When you present your sacrifices<n id="1" /> &#8211; when you make your sons pass through the fire &#8211; you defile yourselves with all your idols to this very day. Will I allow you to seek me,<n id="2" /> O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, I will not allow you to seek me!<n id="3" />p>

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.<n id="1" />

This city will not be a cooking pot for you, and you will not<n id="1" /> be meat within it; I will judge you at the border of Israel.

&#8220;Son of man, what is this proverb you have in the land of Israel, &#8216;The days pass slowly, and every vision fails&#8217;?

I will vent my rage against the wall, and against those who coated it with whitewash. Then I will say to you, &#8220;The wall is no more and those who whitewashed it are no more &#8211;

&#8220;What do you mean by quoting this proverb concerning the land of Israel,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;&#8216;The fathers eat sour grapesp> <p class="poetry">And the children&#8217;s teeth become numb?&#8217;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;As surely as I live, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="1" /> 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!<n id="1" /> 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 <sc>Lordsc>.&#8217;p>

So this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: I vow<n id="1" /> that the nations around you will endure insults as well.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Because they are saying to you, &#8220;You are a devourer of men, and bereave your nation of children,&#8221;

Understand that<n id="1" /> it is not for your sake I am about to act, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>. Be ashamed and embarrassed by your behavior, O house of Israel.p>

Say to the rebellious,<n id="1" /> to the house of Israel, &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Enough of all your abominable practices, O house of Israel!