First they come back, then they repent.
Ezekiel (NRSV) 11:
14 THEN THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO ME: 15 MORTAL, YOUR KINSFOLK, YOUR OWN KIN, YOUR FELLOW EXILES, THE WHOLE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, ALL OF THEM, ARE THOSE OF WHOM THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM HAVE SAID, THEY HAVE GONE FAR FROM THE LORD; TO US THIS LAND IS GIVEN FOR A POSSESSION. 16 THEREFORE SAY: THUS SAYS THE LORD GOD: THOUGH I REMOVED THEM FAR AWAY AMONG THE NATIONS, AND THOUGH I SCATTERED THEM AMONG THE COUNTRIES, YET I HAVE BEEN A SANCTUARY TO THEM FOR A LITTLE WHILE IN THE COUNTRIES WHERE THEY HAVE GONE. 17 THEREFORE SAY: THUS SAYS THE LORD GOD: I WILL GATHER YOU FROM THE PEOPLES, AND ASSEMBLE YOU OUT OF THE COUNTRIES WHERE YOU HAVE BEEN SCATTERED, AND I WILL GIVE YOU THE LAND OF ISRAEL. 18 WHEN THEY COME THERE, THEY WILL REMOVE FROM IT ALL ITS DETESTABLE THINGS AND ALL ITS ABOMINATIONS. 19 I WILL GIVE THEM ONE HEART, AND PUT A NEW SPIRIT WITHIN THEM; I WILL REMOVE THE HEART OF STONE FROM THEIR FLESH AND GIVE THEM A HEART OF FLESH, 20 SO THAT THEY MAY FOLLOW MY STATUTES AND KEEP MY ORDINANCES AND OBEY THEM. THEN THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE, AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD. 21 BUT AS FOR THOSE WHOSE HEART GOES AFTER THEIR DETESTABLE THINGS AND THEIR ABOMINATIONS, I WILL BRING THEIR DEEDS UPON THEIR OWN HEADS, SAYS THE LORD GOD.
Ezekiel (NRSV) 16:
53 I WILL RESTORE THEIR FORTUNES, THE FORTUNES OF SODOM AND HER DAUGHTERS AND THE FORTUNES OF SAMARIA AND HER DAUGHTERS, AND I WILL RESTORE YOUR OWN FORTUNES ALONG WITH THEIRS, 54 IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY BEAR YOUR DISGRACE AND BE ASHAMED OF ALL THAT YOU HAVE DONE, BECOMING A CONSOLATION TO THEM. 55 AS FOR YOUR SISTERS, SODOM AND HER DAUGHTERS SHALL RETURN TO THEIR FORMER STATE, SAMARIA AND HER DAUGHTERS SHALL RETURN TO THEIR FORMER STATE, AND YOU AND YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL RETURN TO YOUR FORMER STATE. 56 WAS NOT YOUR SISTER SODOM A BYWORD IN YOUR MOUTH IN THE DAY OF YOUR PRIDE, 57 BEFORE YOUR WICKEDNESS WAS UNCOVERED? NOW YOU ARE A MOCKERY TO THE DAUGHTERS OF ARAM AND ALL HER NEIGHBORS, AND TO THE DAUGHTERS OF THE PHILISTINES, THOSE ALL AROUND WHO DESPISE YOU. 58 YOU MUST BEAR THE PENALTY OF YOUR LEWDNESS AND YOUR ABOMINATIONS, SAYS THE LORD.
Ezekiel (NRSV) 23:
1 THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO ME: 2 MORTAL, THERE WERE TWO WOMEN, THE DAUGHTERS OF ONE MOTHER; 3THEY PLAYED THE WHORE IN EGYPT; THEY PLAYED THE WHORE IN THEIR YOUTH; THEIR BREASTS WERE CARESSED THERE, AND THEIR VIRGIN BOSOMS WERE FONDLED. 4OHOLAH WAS THE NAME OF THE ELDER AND OHOLIBAH THE NAME OF HER SISTER. THEY BECAME MINE, AND THEY BORE SONS AND DAUGHTERS. AS FOR THEIR NAMES, OHOLAH IS SAMARIA, AND OHOLIBAH IS JERUSALEM.