When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth.(A) Then what will you do about your great name?” (B)

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The Canaanites and the other people of the country will hear about this and they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth.(A) What then will you do for your own great name?(B)

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22 “Therefore, say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the Lord God says: It is not for your sake that I will act,(A) house of Israel, but for my holy name,(B) which you profaned among the nations where you went. 23 I will honor the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations—the name you have profaned among them. The nations will know that I am the Lord—this is the declaration of the Lord God—when I demonstrate my holiness through you in their sight.(C)

24 “‘For I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.(D) 25 I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean.(E) I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.(F) 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you;(G) I will remove your heart of stone[a] and give you a heart of flesh.(H) 27 I will place my Spirit within you(I) and cause you to follow my statutes and carefully observe my ordinances.(J) 28 You will live in the land that I gave your ancestors;(K) you will be my people, and I will be your God.(L)

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Footnotes

  1. 36:26 Lit stone from your flesh

22 “Therefore say to the Israelites, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: It is not for your sake, people of Israel, that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name,(A) which you have profaned(B) among the nations where you have gone.(C) 23 I will show the holiness of my great name,(D) which has been profaned(E) among the nations, the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord,(F) declares the Sovereign Lord, when I am proved holy(G) through you before their eyes.(H)

24 “‘For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land.(I) 25 I will sprinkle(J) clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse(K) you from all your impurities(L) and from all your idols.(M) 26 I will give you a new heart(N) and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone(O) and give you a heart of flesh.(P) 27 And I will put my Spirit(Q) in you and move you to follow my decrees(R) and be careful to keep my laws.(S) 28 Then you will live in the land I gave your ancestors; you will be my people,(T) and I will be your God.(U)

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