13 It's true that you have been accused of not producing enough food and of letting your people starve.
14-15 But I, the Lord, promise that you won't hear other nations laugh and sneer at you ever again. From now on, you will always produce plenty of food for your people. I, the Lord God, have spoken.
16 The Lord said:
17 Ezekiel, son of man, when the people of Israel were living in their own country, they made the land unclean by the way they behaved, just as a woman's monthly period makes her unclean.
18 They committed murders and worshipped idols, which made the land even worse. So in my anger, I punished my people
19 and scattered them throughout the nations, just as they deserved.
20 Wherever they went, my name was disgraced, because foreigners insulted my people by saying I had forced them out of their own land.