Ezekiel
Ezekiel 36 ©
1 The land of Israel is comforted with a prospect of the ruin of its spiteful neighbours, and of its own blessings promised by God. 16 Israel was rejected for their sin, and shall be restored with blessings for the sake of God's name only.
Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; 1Because 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 2ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:
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 3rivers, and to the valleys, to fthe desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and gderision to hthe residue of the heathen that are round about;
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely iin the fire of my jealousy have I spoken jagainst the residue of the heathen, and against all kIdumea, which have appointed lmy land into their possession mwith the joy of all their heart, with *despiteful minds, to cast it out for a *prey.
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 nye have borne the shame of the heathen:
For, behold, I am for you, tand I will turn unto you, and ye shall be *tilled and sown:
And wI will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and xI will settle you after yyour old estates, and zwill do better unto you than at your beginnings: and aye shall know that I am the LORD.
Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, ithey defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the juncleanness of a removed woman.
And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they nprofaned my holy name, when they said to them, oThese are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.
And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among tthe heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, uwhen I shall be vsanctified in you before 5their eyes.
¶Then will xI sprinkle yclean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: zfrom all your filthiness, and from aall your idols, will I cleanse you.
A bnew 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.
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.
iThen shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall jlothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
nAnd the desolate land shall be *tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
As the 6holy flock, as the uflock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so vshall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD.