Ezekiel 39:17-29

17Son of man, this is what the Lord God says: Shout to all kinds of birds and wild animals, “Come here from all the country to eat the meal that I have prepared for you. It is a great sacrifice on Israel's mountains. There you will eat meat and you will drink blood.

18You will eat the meat of great men and you will drink the blood of kings. You will eat them like the fat sheep, cows and animals from Bashan that you eat.

19At this sacrifice, you will eat so much fat that you cannot eat any more. You will drink so much blood that you become drunk.

20I will give you horses and their riders to eat. I will give you great men and many kinds of soldiers to eat,” says the Lord God.

21I will show my glory to all the nations. They will see that I can punish people. And they will know that I decide how and when to punish them.

22From that time and for all the time after that, Israel's people will know that I am the Lord their God.

23And the nations will know that I sent Israel's people away from their country. They will know that I punished my people because of their sin. They had not been faithful to me so I turned away from them. I let their enemies take them and kill them with swords.

24I punished them because they had not kept themselves clean from sin. I hid myself from them because they had done so many evil things.’

25So this is what the Lord God says. ‘Now I will bring back Jacob (Israel) from the countries where his people are prisoners. I will be kind to all Israel's people. And I will make them see that I am holy.

26They will forget that they were ashamed. They will forget that they failed to keep their promises to me. That was when they lived in a safe country. In that country, nobody made them afraid.

27I will bring them back from the lands where their enemies took them. The nations will see what I have done. So all the nations will know that I am holy.

28Then Israel will know that I am the Lord their God. I sent my people away to far countries. But I will bring them all back to their own country. I will not leave any behind.

29No longer will I turn away from them. I will pour my Spirit over Israel's people, says the Lord God.’