Ezekiel:36
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Also ,
thou son of man ,
prophesy unto the mountains of Israel ,
and say ,
Ye mountains of Israel ,
hear the word of the LORD :
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Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
Because the enemy hath said against you ,
Aha ,
even the ancient high places are ours in possession :
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Therefore prophesy and say ,
Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
Because they have made you desolate ,
and swallowed you up on every side ,
that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen ,
and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers ,
and are an infamy of the people :
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Therefore ,
ye mountains of Israel ,
hear the word of the Lord GOD ;
Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains ,
and to the hills ,
to the rivers ,
and to the valleys ,
to the desolate wastes ,
and to the cities that are forsaken ,
which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about ;
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD ;
Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen ,
and against all Idumea ,
which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart ,
with despiteful minds ,
to cast it out for a prey .
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Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel ,
and say unto the mountains ,
and to the hills ,
to the rivers ,
and to the valleys ,
Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
Behold ,
I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury ,
because ye have borne the shame of the heathen :
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD ;
I have lifted up mine hand ,
Surely the heathen that are about you ,
they shall bear their shame .
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But ye ,
O mountains of Israel ,
ye shall shoot forth your branches ,
and yield your fruit to my people of Israel ;
for they are at hand to come .
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For ,
behold ,
I am for you ,
and I will turn unto you ,
and ye shall be tilled and sown :
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And I will multiply men upon you ,
all the house of Israel ,
even all of it :
and the cities shall be inhabited ,
and the wastes shall be builded :
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And I will multiply upon you man and beast ;
and they shall increase and bring fruit :
and I will settle you after your old estates ,
and will do better unto you than at your beginnings :
and ye shall know that I am the LORD .
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Yea ,
I will cause men to walk upon you ,
even my people Israel ;
and they shall possess thee ,
and thou shalt be their inheritance ,
and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men .
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Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
Because they say unto you ,
Thou land devourest up men ,
and hast bereaved thy nations ;
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Therefore thou shalt devour men no more ,
neither bereave thy nations any more ,
saith the Lord GOD .
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Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more ,
neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more ,
neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more ,
saith the Lord GOD .
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Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me ,
saying ,
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Son of man ,
when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land ,
they defiled it by their own way and by their doings :
their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman .
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Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land ,
and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it :
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And I scattered them among the heathen ,
and they were dispersed through the countries :
according to their way and according to their doings I judged them .
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And when they entered unto the heathen ,
whither they went ,
they profaned my holy name ,
when they said to them ,
These are the people of the LORD ,
and are gone forth out of his land .
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But I had pity for mine holy name ,
which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen ,
whither they went .
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Therefore say unto the house of Israel ,
Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
I do not this for your sakes ,
O house of Israel ,
but for mine holy name '
s sake ,
which ye have profaned among the heathen ,
whither ye went .
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And I will sanctify my great name ,
which was profaned among the heathen ,
which ye have profaned in the midst of them ;
and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD ,
saith the Lord GOD ,
when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes .
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For I will take you from among the heathen ,
and gather you out of all countries ,
and will bring you into your own land .
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Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you ,
and ye shall be clean :
from all your filthiness ,
and from all your idols ,
will I cleanse you .
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A new heart also will I give you ,
and a new spirit will I put within you :
and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh ,
and I will give you an heart of flesh .
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And I will put my spirit within you ,
and cause you to walk in my statutes ,
and ye shall keep my judgments ,
and do them .
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And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers ;
and ye shall be my people ,
and I will be your God .
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I will also save you from all your uncleannesses :
and I will call for the corn ,
and will increase it ,
and lay no famine upon you .
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And I will multiply the fruit of the tree ,
and the increase of the field ,
that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen .
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Then shall ye remember your own evil ways ,
and your doings that were not good ,
and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations .
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Not for your sakes do I this ,
saith the Lord GOD ,
be it known unto you :
be ashamed and confounded for your own ways ,
O house of Israel .
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Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities ,
and the wastes shall be builded .
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And the desolate land shall be tilled ,
whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by .
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And they shall say ,
This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden ;
and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced ,
and are inhabited .
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Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined places ,
and plant that that was desolate :
I the LORD have spoken it ,
and I will do it .
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Thus saith the Lord GOD ;
I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel ,
to do it for them ;
I will increase them with men like a flock .
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As the holy flock ,
as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts ;
so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men :
and they shall know that I am the LORD .