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Therefore thus says the LORD God: I have lifted up my hand against the nations that are round about you, so that they may bear their shame.

Thus says the LORD God: Because they say to you, You are a land which devours her people and is bereaved of her inhabitants;

Therefore, from henceforth you shall devour men no more, neither shall you be bereaved of your people any more, says the LORD God.

Neither will I cause you to bear the shame of the nations any more, nor shall you bear the reproach of the people any more, nor shall you be bereaved of your people any more, says the LORD God.

Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the LORD God: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am doing this; but for my holy names sake, which you have profaned among the Gentiles, whither you went.

So that I may sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the Gentiles, which you have caused to be profaned among them; and the Gentiles shall know that I am the LORD, says the LORD God, when my name shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

And you shall dwell in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

But you must know, it is not for your sake that I am doing these things, says the LORD God; now be ashamed and refrain from your evil ways, that you may not die, O house of Israel.

Thus says the LORD God: On the day that I shall cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will also cause the cities to be inhabited and the ruined places rebuilt.

Thus says the LORD God: Moreover in this shall I avenge the house of Israel, to do these things for them; and I will increase them with men like a flock.

And he said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O LORD God, thou knowest.

Thus says the LORD God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live;

Then he said to me, Prophesy concerning the breath; prophesy, Son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the LORD God: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, that they may live.

Therefore prophesy and say to them, Thus says the LORD God: Behold, I will open your graves and bring you up out of them and bring you into the land of Israel.

And I will put my spirit in you, and .you shall live, and I shall place you in your own land; then you shall know that I am the LORD; I have spoken it, and I will do it, says the LORD God.

Say to them, Thus says the LORD God: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them together with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand.

And say to them, Thus says the LORD God: Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations whither they have gone, and will gather them together and bring them into their own land;

Nor shall they defile themselves any more with their idols nor with their abominations nor with all their iniquity; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them; so they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

My dwelling place also shall be with them; yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Thus says the LORD God: Behold, I am against you, O China, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: