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17 I will gather you back from those countries and lands where you've been scattered and give you back the land of Israel.
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“Therefore say: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will gather you from the nations and bring you back from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you back the land of Israel again.’
18 You'll come back and clean house, throw out all the rotten images and obscene idols.
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“They will return to it and remove all its vile images and detestable idols.
19 I'll give you a new heart. I'll put a new spirit in you. I'll cut out your stone heart and replace it with a red-blooded, firm-muscled heart.
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I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh.
20 Then you'll obey my statutes and be careful to obey my commands. You'll be my people! I'll be your God!
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Then they will follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
21 "'But not those who are self-willed and addicted to their rotten images and obscene idols! I'll see that they're paid in full for what they've done.' Decree of God, the Master."
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But as for those whose hearts are devoted to their vile images and detestable idols, I will bring down on their own heads what they have done, declares the Sovereign LORD.”
22 Then the cherubim spread their wings, with the wheels beside them and the Glory of the God of Israel hovering over them.
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Then the cherubim, with the wheels beside them, spread their wings, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them.
23 The Glory of God ascended from within the city and rested on the mountain to the east of the city.
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The glory of the LORD went up from within the city and stopped above the mountain east of it.
24 Then, still in the vision given me by the Spirit of God, the Spirit took me and carried me back to the exiles in Babylon. And then the vision left me.
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The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the exiles in Babylonia in the vision given by the Spirit of God. Then the vision I had seen went up from me,
25 I told the exiles everything that God had shown me.
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and I told the exiles everything the LORD had shown me.
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