Also, thou
son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of
Israel, and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the
word of the Lord:
02 Thus saith the Lord God; Because the enemy
hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high
places are ours in possession:
03 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:
04 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;
05 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.
06 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:
07 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I have
lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are
about you, they shall bear their shame.
08 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.
09 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn
unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:
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:
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.
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.
13 Thus saith the Lord God; Because they say unto
you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast
bereaved thy nations:
14 Therefore thou shalt devour men no more,
neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the
Lord God.
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.
16 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me,
saying,
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.
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:
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.
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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.
21 But I had pity for mine holy name, which the
house of Israel had profaned among the heathen,
whither they went.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
31 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.
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.
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.
34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas
it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed
by.
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.
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.
37 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.
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.
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