Ezekiel 36

CLV(i) 1 And you, son of man, prophesy unto mountains of Israel, and you have said, O mountains of Israel, hear a word of Yahweh." 2 Thus said the Lord Yahweh:Because the enemy said against you, Aha, and the high places of old for a possession have been to us, 3 therefore, prophesy, and you have said:Thus said the Lord Yahweh:Because, even because, of desolating, And of swallowing you up from round about, For your being a possession to the remnant of the nations, And you are taken up on the tip of the tongue, And [are] an evil report of the people." 4 Therefore, O mountains of Israel, Hear a word of the Lord Yahweh:Thus said the Lord Yahweh, to mountains, and to hills, To streams, and to valleys, And to wastes that [are] desolate, And to cities that are forsaken, That have been for a prey, And for a scorn, to the remnant of the nations who [are] round about." 5 Therefore, thus said the Lord Yahweh:Have I not, in the fire of My jealousy, Spoken against the remnant of the nations, And against Edom--all of it, Who gave My land to themselves for a possession, With the joy of the whole heart--with despite of soul, For the sake of casting it out for a prey? 6 Therefore, prophesy concerning the ground of Israel, And you have said to mountains, and to hills, To streams, and to valleys, Thus said the Lord Yahweh:Lo, I, in My jealousy, and in My fury, I have spoken, Because the shame of nations you have borne." 7 Therefore, thus said the Lord Yahweh:I--I have lifted up My hand, Do not--the nations who [are] with you from round about--they their own shame bear? 8 And you, O mountains of Israel, Your branch you give out, and your fruits you bear for My people Israel, For they have drawn near to come." 9 For, lo, I [am] for you, and have turned to you, And you have been tilled and sown." 10 And I have multiplied on you men, All the house of Israel--all of it, And the cities have been inhabited, And the wastes are built." 11 And I have multiplied on you man and beast, And they have multiplied and been fruitful, And I have caused you to dwell according to your former states, And I have done better than at your beginnings, And you have known that I [am] Yahweh." 12 And I have caused man to walk over you, --My people Israel, And they possess you, and you have been to them for an inheritance, And you do add no more to bereave them." 13 Thus said the Lord Yahweh:Because they are saying to you:A devourer of men [are] you, And a bereaver of your nations you have been, 14 Therefore, man you devour no more, And your nations you cause not to stumble any more, An affirmation of the Lord Yahweh." 15 And I proclaim not unto you any more the shame of the nations, And the reproach of peoples you bear no more, And your nations stumble not any more, An affirmation of the Lord Yahweh.'" 16 And there is a word of Yahweh unto me, saying, 17 `Son of man, The house of Israel are dwelling on their land, And they defile it by their way and by their doings, As the uncleanness of a separated one has their way been before Me." 18 And I do pour out My fury upon them For the blood that they shed on the land, And with their idols they have defiled it." 19 And I scatter them among nations, And they are spread through lands, According to their way, and according to their doings, I have judged them." 20 And one goes in unto the nations whither they have gone, And they pollute My holy name by saying to them, The people of Yahweh [are] these, And from His land they have gone forth." 21 And I have pity on My holy name, That the house of Israel have polluted among nations whither they have gone in." 22 Therefore, say to the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord Yahweh:Not for your sake am I working, O house of Israel, But--for My holy name, That you have polluted among nations whither you have gone in." 23 And I have sanctified My great name, That is profaned among nations, That you have polluted in your midst, And known have the nations that I [am] Yahweh, An affirmation of the Lord Yahweh, In My being sanctified in you before your eyes." 24 And I have taken you out of the nations, And have gathered you out of all the lands, And I have brought you in unto your land, 25 And I have sprinkled over you clean water, And you have been clean; From all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, I do cleanse you." 26 And I have given to you a new heart, And a new spirit I give in your midst, And I have turned aside the heart of stone out of your flesh, And I have given to you a heart of flesh." 27 And My Spirit I give in your midst, And I have done this, so that in My statutes you walk, And My judgments you keep, and have done them." 28 And you have dwelt in the land that I have given to your fathers, And you have been to Me for a people, And I--I am to you for Elohim." 29 And I have saved you from all your uncleannesses, And I have called unto the corn, and multiplied it, And I have put no famine upon you." 30 And I have multiplied the fruit of the tree, And the increase of the field, So that you receive not any more a reproach of famine among nations." 31 And you have remembered your ways that [are] evil, And your doings that [are] not good, And have been loathsome in your own faces, For your iniquities, and for your abominations." 32 Not for your sake am I working, An affirmation of the Lord Yahweh, Be it known to you, Be ashamed and confounded, because of your ways, O house of Israel." 33 Thus said the Lord Yahweh:In the day of My cleansing you from all your iniquities, I have caused the cities to be inhabited, And the wastes have been built, 34 And the desolate land is tilled, Instead of which it was a desolation before the eyes of every passer by, 35 And they have said:This land, that was desolated, Has been as the garden of Eden, And the cities--the wasted, And the desolated, and the broken down, Fenced places have remained." 36 And known have the nations who are left round about you, That I Yahweh have built the thrown down, I have planted the desolated:I Yahweh have spoken, and I have done [it]." 37 Thus said the Lord Yahweh:Yet this I am required, By the house of Israel to do to them, I multiply them as a flock of men, 38 As a flock of holy ones, as a flock of Jerusalem, In her appointed seasons, So are the waste cities full of flocks of men, And they have known that I [am] Yahweh!'"