rsv Ezekiel:36:11-24
rsv@Ezekiel:36:11 @ and I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited as in your former times, and will do more good to you than ever before. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
rsv@Ezekiel:36:12 @ Yea, I will let men walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no longer bereave them of children.
rsv@Ezekiel:36:13 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: Because men say to you, `You devour men, and you bereave your nation of children,'
rsv@Ezekiel:36:14 @ therefore you shall no longer devour men and no longer bereave your nation of children, says the Lord GOD;
rsv@Ezekiel:36:15 @ and I will not let you hear any more the reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, says the Lord GOD."
rsv@Ezekiel:36:16 @ The word of the LORD came to me:
rsv@Ezekiel:36:17 @ "Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their doings; their conduct before me was like the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.
rsv@Ezekiel:36:18 @ So I poured out my wrath upon them for the blood which they had shed in the land, for the idols with which they had defiled it.
rsv@Ezekiel:36:19 @ I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries; in accordance with their conduct and their deeds I judged them.
rsv@Ezekiel:36:20 @ But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that men said of them, `These are the people of the LORD, and yet they had to go out of his land.'
rsv@Ezekiel:36:21 @ But I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Israel caused to be profaned among the nations to which they came.
rsv@Ezekiel:36:22 @ "Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came.
rsv@Ezekiel:36:23 @ And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them; and the nations will know that I am the LORD, says the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
rsv@Ezekiel:36:24 @ For I will take you from the nations, and gather you from all the countries, and bring you into your own land.
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