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Ezekiel 36

36 “Mortal, prophesy to the mountains in the land of Israel. Say to them, ‘You mountains of Israel, listen to this message from Yahweh! 2 This is what I, the Lord Yahweh, say: Your enemies gloated over you and claimed that these age-old mountains now belong to them.’ 3 So prophesy to those mountains and tell them that this is what I, the Lord Yahweh, say: ‘Enemies ruined you and crushed you from every direction, so the nations that survived took possession of you. People everywhere gossiped about you and spread malicious reports about you. 4 Therefore, you mountains of Israel, listen to what I, the Lord Yahweh, say. I am speaking to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys, to the ruins where no one lives any longer, and to the cities that people abandoned, cities that the surrounding nations plundered and ridiculed. 5 I, the Lord Yahweh, say this: Because I am fiercely angry, I have declared that I will punish the nations that survived, and especially all the people of Edom. They joyfully and scornfully seized my land for themselves so that they could plunder its pastures.’ 6 Therefore prophesy about the land of Israel. Say to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys, that this is what I, the Lord Yahweh, say: ‘Listen! I have spoken because I am jealous and very angry, since the other nations have humiliated you. 7 Therefore, I, the Lord Yahweh, say this: I solemnly swear that the nations around you will themselves suffer disgrace.

8 You mountains of Israel will grow trees that produce plenty of fruit for my people Israel, because my people will soon come home. 9 I am going to help you; I will treat you kindly. People will plow your soil and plant seed in it. 10 I will greatly increase the number of people who live on you— all the people of Israel, every one of them. People will live in the cities again, and they will rebuild the ruined places. 11 I will increase the number of people and animals on you, and they will have many children and become very numerous. I will cause people to live on you as they did long ago, and I will make you more prosperous than you were at the beginning. Then you will know that I am Yahweh. 12 I will cause my people Israel to live on you. They will possess you, and you will belong to them permanently. Never again will their children die there. 13 I, the Lord Yahweh, say this: People have said about you, land of Israel, that those who live on you die there and that your nation loses its children. 14 Therefore, from now on, people who live on you will not die there, and your nation will not lose its children. That is what I, the Lord Yahweh, declare. 15 Never again will I let the nations humiliate you or the peoples insult you, and never again will your nation fall into ruin because of you. That is what I, the Lord Yahweh, declare.’ ”

16 Yahweh gave me another message. He said, 17 “Mortal, when the Israelite people were living in their own land, they made it unclean by the way they lived and by the things they did. I considered the way they behaved to be filthy and repulsive, so they could not come into my presence. 18 So I punished them severely, because they had murdered many people in the land and because they had made the land unclean by worshiping idols there. 19 I scattered them among many nations and lands. I judged them for the way they had lived and for the things they had done. 20 Yet wherever they went among those nations, they ruined my holy reputation, because the people there said that these were my people but that I had not been able to keep them in my land. 21 So I cared about my holy reputation, which the Israelite people had ruined among the nations wherever they went.

22 Therefore, tell the Israelite people that this is what I, the Lord Yahweh, say: ‘You Israelite people, I am not going to restore you because you deserve it. I will act in order to restore my own holy reputation, which you ruined among the nations wherever you went. 23 I will show that my great reputation is holy— the reputation that you ruined among those nations. Then, when they see me show that I am holy by what I do for you, those nations will know that I am Yahweh. That is what I, the Lord Yahweh, declare. 24 I will take you out of those nations. I will gather you from all those lands and bring you back to your own land. 25 I will make you completely clean. I will remove everything that made you unacceptable to me, and I will cause you to stop worshiping your idols. 26 I will give you a completely new way of thinking and a completely new attitude. I will cause you to stop being stubborn, and I will cause you to want to obey me. 27 I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to live the way I have commanded and to obey my laws carefully. 28 Then you will live in the land that I gave to your ancestors. You will be my people, and I will be your God. 29 I will rescue you from everything that made you unacceptable to me. I will make your grain grow plentifully, and I will never again cause you to suffer from hunger. 30 I will cause your fruit trees and your fields to produce plenty of food, so that the other nations will never again insult you because you do not have enough to eat. 31 Then you will remember how evil your behavior was and how wicked the things were that you did, and you will hate yourselves because you sinned and did detestable things.

32 I want you to know that I am not doing this because you deserve it. That is what I, the Lord Yahweh, declare. You Israelite people should feel deep shame and disgrace because of the way you have behaved. 33 I, the Lord Yahweh, say this: On the day when I cleanse you from all your sins, I will cause people to live in your cities again, and they will rebuild the ruined places. 34 People will farm the land that was empty, instead of leaving it desolate for everyone who passes by to see. 35 Then people will say that this land which was once empty has become as fertile as the garden of Eden, and that the cities which enemies had ruined and torn down and left empty are now strong and full of people. 36 Then the nations that I have allowed to remain around you will know that I, Yahweh, have caused people to rebuild what enemies tore down and to plant crops again where the land was empty. I, Yahweh, have promised this, and I will do it.

37 I, the Lord Yahweh, say this: Once again I will respond when the Israelite people ask me to do this for them: I will make their people as numerous as a flock of sheep. 38 Just as huge flocks of sheep fill Jerusalem when people bring them there to sacrifice during the yearly festivals, so the cities that are now in ruins will be full of people. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’ ”

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