Ezekiel:36

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* And thou , son of man , prophesy to the mountains of Israel , and say to the mountains of Israel , Hear ye the word of the Lord : * Thus saith the Lord God ; Because the enemy has said against you , Aha , the old waste places are become a possession for us : * therefore prophesy , and say , Thus saith the Lord God ; Because ye have been dishonoured , and hated by those round about you , that ye might be a possession to the remainder of the nations , and ye became a by-word , and a reproach to the nations : * therefore , ye mountains of Israel , hear the word of the Lord ; Thus saith the Lord to the mountains , and to the hills , and to the streams , and to the valleys , and to the places that have been made desolate and destroyed , and to the cities that have been deserted , and have become a spoil and a trampling to the nations that were left round about ; * therefore , thus saith the Lord ; Verily in the fire of my wrath have I spoken against the rest of the nations , and against all Idumea , because they have appropriated my land to themselves for a possession with joy , (note :)Lit . having dishonoured (:note ) disregarding the lives of the inhabitants , to destroy it by plunder : * therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel , and say to the mountains , and to the hills , and to the valleys , and to the forests , Thus saith the Lord ; Behold , I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath , because ye have borne the reproaches of the heathen : * therefore I will lift up my hand against the nations that are round about you ; they shall bear their reproach . * But your grapes and your fruits , O mountains of Israel , shall my people eat ; for they are hoping to come . * For , behold , I am toward you , and I will have respect to you , and ye shall be tilled and sown : * and I will multiply men upon you , even all the house of Israel to the end : and the cities shall be inhabited , and the desolate land shall be built upon . * And I will multiply men and cattle upon you ; and I will cause you to dwell as at (note :)Lit . your beginning (:note ) the beginning , and will treat you well , as in your former times : and ye shall know that I am the Lord . * And I will increase men upon you , even my people Israel ; and they shall inherit you , and ye shall be to them for a possession ; and ye shall no more be bereaved of them . * Thus saith the Lord God : Because they said to thee , Thou land devourest men , and hast been bereaved of thy nation ; * therefore thou shalt no more devour men , and thou shalt no more bereave thy nation , saith the Lord God . * And there shall no more be heard against you the reproach of the nations , and ye shall no more bear the revilings of the peoples , saith the Lord God . * And the word of the Lord came to me , saying , * Son of man , the house of Israel dwelt upon their land , and defiled it by their way , and with their idols , and with their uncleannesses ; and their way was before me like the uncleanness of a removed woman . * So I poured out my wrath upon them : (note :)Alex . +’for the blood which they shed in the land , and they defiled it with their idols ’(:note ) * and I dispersed them among the nations , and utterly scattered them through the countries : I judged them according to their way and according to their sin . * And they went in among the nations , among which they went , and they profaned my holy name , while it was said of them , These are the people of the Lord , and they came forth out of his land . * but I spared them for the sake of my holy name , which the house of Israel profaned among the nations , among whom they went . * Therefore say to the house of Israel , Thus saith the Lord ; I do not this , O house of Israel , (note :)Lit . for , or , to you (:note ) for your sakes , but because of my holy name , which ye have profaned among the nations , among whom ye went . * And I will sanctify my great name , which was profaned among the nations , which ye profaned in the midst of them ; and the nations shall know that I am the Lord , when I am sanctified among you before their eyes . * And I will take you out from the nations , and will gather you out of all the lands , and will bring you into your own land : * and I will sprinkle clean water upon you , and ye shall be purged from all your uncleannesses , and from all your idols , and I will cleanse you . * And I will give you a new heart , and will put a new spirit in you : and I will take away the heart of stone out of your flesh , and will give you a heart of flesh . * And I will put my Spirit in you , and will cause you to walk in mine ordinances , and to keep my judgements , and do them . * And ye shall dwell upon the land which I gave to your fathers ; and ye shall be to me a people , and I will be to you a God . * And I will save you from all your uncleannesses : and I will call for the corn , and multiply it , and will not bring famine upon you . * And I will multiply the fruit of the trees , and the produce of the field , that ye may not bear the reproach of famine among the nations . * And ye shall remember your evil ways and your practices that were not good , and ye shall be hateful in your own sight for your transgressions and for (note :)Alex . umwn (:note ) your abominations . * Not for your sakes do I this , saith the Lord God , (note :)Alex . be it known to you (:note ) as it is known to you : be ye ashamed and confounded for your ways , O house of Israel . * Thus saith the Lord God ; In the day wherein I shall cleanse you from all your iniquities I will also cause the cities to be inhabited , and the waste places shall be built upon : * and the desolate land shall be cultivated , whereas it was desolate in the eyes of every one that passed by . * And they shall say , That desolate land is become like a garden of delight ; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are (note :)Lit . have sat (:note ) inhabited . * And the nations , as many as shall have been left round about you , shall know that I the Lord have built the ruined cities and planted the waste lands : I the Lord have spoken , and will do it . * Thus saith the Lord God ; Yet (note :)Possibly , this time (:note ) for this will I be sought by the house of Israel , to establish them ; I will multiply them even men as sheep ; * as holy sheep , as the sheep of Jerusalem in her feasts ; thus shall the desert cities be full of flocks of men : and they shall know that I am the Lord .

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