36Ezekiel 36

1And thou son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say: Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord:Select Ezekiel 36:1

2Thus saith the Lord God: Because the enemy hath said to you: Aha, the everlasting heights are given to us for an inheritance.Select Ezekiel 36:2

3Therefore prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Because you have been desolate, and trodden under foot on every side, and made an inheritance to the rest of the nations, and are become the subject of the talk, and the reproach of the people:Select Ezekiel 36:3

4Therefore, 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 brooks, and to the valleys, and to desolate places, and ruinous walls, and to the cities that are forsaken, that are spoiled, and derided by the rest of the nations round about.Select Ezekiel 36:4

5Therefore thus saith the Lord God: In the fire of my zeal I have spoken of the rest of the nations, and of all Edom, who have taken my land to themselves, for an inheritance with joy, and with all the heart, and with the mind: and have cast it out to lay it waste.Select Ezekiel 36:5

6Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains, and to the hills, to the ridges, and to the valleys: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I have spoken in my zeal, and in my indignation, because you have borne the shame of the Gentiles.Select Ezekiel 36:6

7Therefore thus saith the Lord God: I have lifted up my hand, that the Gentiles who are round about you, shall themselves bear their shame.Select Ezekiel 36:7

8But as for you, O mountains of Israel, shoot ye forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel: for they are at hand to come.Select Ezekiel 36:8

9For I, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be ploughed and sown.Select Ezekiel 36:9

10And I will multiply men upon you, and all the house of Israel: and the cities ball be inhabited, and the ruinous places shall be repaired.Select Ezekiel 36:10

11And I will make you abound with men and with beasts: and they shall be multiplied, and increased: and I will settle you as from the beginning, and will give you greater gifts, than you had from the beginning: and you shall know that I am the Lord.Select Ezekiel 36:11

12And I will bring men upon you, my people Israel, and they shall possess thee for their inheritance: and thou shalt be their inheritance, and shalt no more henceforth be without them.Select Ezekiel 36:12

13Thus saith the Lord God: Because thy say of you: Thou art a devourer of men, and one that suffocatest thy nation:Select Ezekiel 36:13

14Therefore thou shalt devour men no more nor destroy thy nation any more, saith the Lord God.Select Ezekiel 36:14

15Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the nations any more, nor shalt thou bear the reproach of the people, nor lose thy nation any more, saith the Lord God.Select Ezekiel 36:15

16And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:Select Ezekiel 36:16

17Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it with their ways, and with their doings: their way was before me like the uncleanness of a menstruous woman.Select Ezekiel 36:17

18And I poured out my indignation upon them for the blood which they had shed upon the land, and with their idols they defiled it.Select Ezekiel 36:18

19And I scattered them among the nations, and they are dispersed through the countries: I have judged them according to their ways, and their devices.Select Ezekiel 36:19

20And when they entered among the nations whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when it was said of them: This is the people of the Lord, and they are come forth out of his land.Select Ezekiel 36:20

21And I have regarded my own holy name, which the house of Israel hath profaned among the nations to which they went in.Select Ezekiel 36:21

22Therefore thou shalt say to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God: It is not for your sake that I will do this, O house of Israel, but for my holy name's sake, which you have profaned among the nations whither you went.Select Ezekiel 36:22

23And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the Gentiles, which you have profaned in the midst of them: that the Gentiles may know that I am the Lord, saith the Lord of hosts, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.Select Ezekiel 36:23

24For I will take you from among the Gentiles, and will gather you together out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.Select Ezekiel 36:24

25And I will pour upon you clean water, and you shall be cleansed from all your filthiness, and I will cleanse you from all your idols.Select Ezekiel 36:25

26And I will give you a new heart, and put a new spirit within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and will give you a heart of flesh.Select Ezekiel 36:26

27And I will put my spirit in the midst of you: and I will cause you to walk in my commandments, and to keep my judgments, and do them.Select Ezekiel 36:27

28And you shall dwell in the land which I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.Select Ezekiel 36:28

29And I will save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for corn, and will multiply it, and will lay no famine upon you.Select Ezekiel 36:29

30And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that you bear no more the reproach of famine among the nations.Select Ezekiel 36:30

31And you shall remember your wicked ways, and your doings that were not good: and your iniquities, and your wicked deeds shall displease you.Select Ezekiel 36:31

32It is not for your sakes that I will do this, saith the Lord God, be it known to you: be confounded, and ashamed at your own ways, O house of Israel.Select Ezekiel 36:32

33Thus saith the Lord God: In the day that I shall cleanse you from all your iniquities, and shall cause the cities to be inhabited, and shall repair the ruinous places,Select Ezekiel 36:33

34And the desolate land shall be tilled, which before was waste in the sight of all that passed by,Select Ezekiel 36:34

35They shall say: This land that was untilled is become as a garden of pleasure: and the cities that were abandoned, and desolate, and destroyed, are peopled and fenced.Select Ezekiel 36:35

36And the nations, that shall be left round about you, shall know that I the Lord have built up what was destroyed, and planted what was desolate, that I the Lord have spoken and done it.Select Ezekiel 36:36

37Thus saith the Lord God: Moreover in this shall the house of Israel find me, that I will do it for them: I will multiply them as a flock of men,Select Ezekiel 36:37

38As a holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts: so shall the waste cities be full of flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the Lord.Select Ezekiel 36:38