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19 I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within them;[a] I will remove the hearts of stone from their bodies[b] and I will give them tender hearts,[c] 20 so that they may follow my statutes and observe my regulations and carry them out. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.[d] 21 But those whose hearts are devoted to detestable things and abominations, I hereby repay them for what they have done,[e] says the Sovereign Lord.”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 11:19 tc The MT reads “you”; many Hebrew mss along with the LXX and other ancient versions read “within them.”
  2. Ezekiel 11:19 tn Heb “their flesh.”
  3. Ezekiel 11:19 tn Heb “heart of flesh.”
  4. Ezekiel 11:20 sn The expression They will be my people, and I will be their God occurs as a promise to Abraham (Gen 17:8), Moses (Exod 6:7), and the nation (Exod 29:45).
  5. Ezekiel 11:21 tn Heb “their way on their head I have placed.”