Eze 36:1 Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and
say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord:
Eze 36:2 Thus saith the Lord God; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha,
even the ancient high places are ours in possession:
Eze 36:3 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:
Eze 36:4 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;
Eze 36:5 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.
Eze 36:6 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:
Eze 36:7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely
the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.
Eze 36:8 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.
Eze 36:9 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be
tilled and sown:
Eze 36:10 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:
Eze 36:11 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.
Eze 36:12 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.
Eze 36:13 Thus saith the Lord God; Because they say unto you, Thou land
devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations;
Eze 36:14 Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations
any more, saith the Lord God.
Eze 36:15 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.
Eze 36:16 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
Eze 36:17 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.
Eze 36:18 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:
Eze 36:19 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.
Eze 36:20 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.
Eze 36:21 But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had
profaned among the heathen, whither they went.
Eze 36:22 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.
Eze 36:23 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.
Eze 36:24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all
countries, and will bring you into your own land.
Eze 36:25 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.
Eze 36:26 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.
Eze 36:27 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.
Eze 36:28 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.
Eze 36:29 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.
Eze 36:30 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.
Eze 36:31 Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were
not good, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and
for your abominations.
Eze 36:32 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.
Eze 36:33 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.
Eze 36:34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the
sight of all that passed by.
Eze 36:35 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.
Eze 36:36 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.
Eze 36:37 Thus saith the Lord God; I will yet for this be inquired of by the
house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.
Eze 36:38 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.