Ezekiel 11:17-20

But this time of privation for the exiles shall come to an end. They shall be gathered out of the countries, and the land of Israel given to them; from which they shall remove all its abominations. They shall receive a new heart to walk in the Lord's commandments; and he shall be their God and they his people.

give you the land of Israel Those left in the country said: The land is given unto us. They shall be cast out and the land again given to those now in exile. The flower of the nation had been carried away in the captivity of Jehoiachin. Both Jeremiah and Ezekiel regard the exiles as the hope of the nation and speak bitterly against the population remaining at home; comp. the former's parable of the very naughty figs (ch. 24), and the latter's scornful questions, ch. Ezekiel 33:24-26. Cp. ch. Ezekiel 28:25; Ezekiel 34:13; Ezekiel 36:24.