ULT EZE Chapter 36

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36 “And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and you will say, ‘Mountains of Israel, hear the word of Yahweh! 2 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because the enemy has said against you, “Aha!” and, “The high places of eternity have become to us as a possession” ’—3 therefore prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because, indeed because, of desolating and trampling you from all around, for your being a possession to the remnant of the nations, and you were taken up on the lip of the tongue and the evil report of a people, 4 therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh! Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the channels and to the valleys, and to the desolate ruins and to the forsaken cities that have become plunder and scorn to the remnant of the nations that are all around—5 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Surely in the fire of my jealousy I have spoken against the remnant of the nations and against Edom, all of it, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with the joy of all the heart, with contempt in the soul, for the sake of its pastureland, for plunder.’ 6 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the channels and to the valleys, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I, in my jealousy and in my wrath I have spoken, because you have borne the humiliation of nations. 7 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I, I have lifted up my hand. Surely the nations that are around you, they, they will bear their humiliation.

8 But you, mountains of Israel, you will give your branch, and you will bear your fruit for my people Israel, for they have drawn near to come. 9 For behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you will be worked and you will be sown. 10 And I will multiply man on you, all the house of Israel, all of it. And the cities will be inhabited, and the ruins will be built. 11 And I will multiply on you man and beast, and they will multiply and be fruitful. And I will cause you to dwell as in your former times, and I will do good more than in your beginnings. And you will know that I am Yahweh. 12 And I will cause man to walk on you, my people Israel, and they will possess you, and you will be to them as an inheritance, and you will not continue again to bereave them. 13 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because they are saying to you, “A devourer of man you are, and a bereaver of your nation you have been,” 14 therefore man you will not devour again, and your nation you will not bereave again— the declaration of the Lord Yahweh. 15 And I will not cause you to hear the humiliation of the nations again, and the reproach of the peoples you will not bear again, and your nation you will not cause to stumble again— the declaration of the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

16 And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 17 “Son of man, the house of Israel was dwelling on their land, and they defiled it with their way and with their deeds. Like the uncleanness of menstruation their way was to my face. 18 And I poured out my wrath on them because of the blood that they poured out on the land, and with their idols they defiled it. 19 And I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed among the lands. According to their way and according to their deeds I judged them. 20 And he came to the nations where they came, and they profaned my holy name, when people said of them, ‘These are the people of Yahweh, and from his land they went out.’ 21 And I had compassion on my holy name, which the house of Israel profaned among the nations where they came.

22 Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Not for your sake am I acting, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you profaned among the nations where you came. 23 And I will sanctify my great name, the one profaned among the nations, which you profaned in their midst. And the nations will know that I am Yahweh— the declaration of the Lord Yahweh— when I am sanctified among you to their eyes. 24 And I will take you from the nations, and I will gather you from all the lands, and I will bring you to your land. 25 And I will sprinkle on you clean water, and you will be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. 26 And I will give to you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put in your midst. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh, and I will give to you a heart of flesh. 27 And my Spirit I will put in your midst, and I will act so that you will walk in my statutes, and my judgments you will keep and do. 28 And you will dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you will be to me as a people, and I, I will be to you as God. 29 And I will save you from all your uncleannesses, and I will call to the grain and I will multiply it, and I will not put famine on you. 30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the produce of the field, so that you will not take again the reproach of famine among the nations. 31 And you will remember your evil ways and your actions that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves in your faces because of your iniquities and because of your abominations.

32 Not for your sake am I acting— the declaration of the Lord Yahweh— may it be known to you. Be ashamed and be humiliated because of your ways, house of Israel! 33 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: On the day of my cleansing you from all your iniquities, then I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the ruins will be built. 34 And the desolated land will be worked, in place of its being a desolation to the eyes of everyone passing by. 35 And they will say, “This desolated land has become like the garden of Eden, and the ruined and the desolated and the torn-down cities are fortified; they are inhabited.” 36 And the nations that are left around you will know that I, Yahweh, have built the torn-down places; I have planted the desolated place. I, Yahweh, have spoken, and I will do it.

37 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Again for this I will be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do for them: I will multiply them like a flock of man. 38 Like the flock of holy things, like the flock of Jerusalem at her appointed times, thus the ruined cities will be full of a flock of man. And they will know that I am Yahweh.’ ”

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