A New Heart and a New Spirit
A restoration oracle to exiled Israel. God promises to cleanse His people, replace their heart of stone with a heart of flesh, and put His own Spirit within them, the Old Testament's clearest picture of inward, God-wrought renewal.
I will show the holiness of My great name, which has been profaned among the nations, the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when I show My holiness in you before their eyes.
For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and I will bring you back into your own land.
I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.
Then you will live in the land that I gave your forefathers; you will be My people, and I will be your God.
I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will summon the grain and make it plentiful, and I will not bring famine upon you.
Then you will remember your evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and abominations.