Ezekiel 38:12 Cross References - MLV

¹² to take the spoil and to take the prey, to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten cattle and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth.

³⁷ And Gaal spoke again and said, See, there comes a people down by the middle of the land and one company comes by the way of the oak of Meonenim.

²⁴ Therefore says the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of my adversaries and avenge me of my enemies. ²⁵ And I will turn my hand upon you and thoroughly purge away your dross and will take away all your tin.

⁶ I will send him against a profane nation and against the people of my wrath. I will give him a charge, to take the spoil and to take the prey and to tread them down like the mud of the streets.

¹⁶ Therefore all those who devour you will be devoured and all your adversaries, every one of them, will go into captivity. And those who despoil you will be a spoil and all who prey upon you I will give for a prey.

⁴³ And fields will be bought in this land, of which you* say, It is desolate, without man or beast. It is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
⁴⁴ Men will buy fields for money and sign the deeds and seal them and call witnesses, in the land of Benjamin and in the places around Jerusalem and in the cities of Judah and in the cities of the hill-country and in the cities of the lowland and in the cities of the South. For I will cause their captivity to return, says Jehovah.

¹² Jehovah of hosts says thus: Yet again there will be in this place, which is waste, without man and without beast and in all the cities of it, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
¹³ In the cities of the hill-country, in the cities of the lowland and in the cities of the South and in the land of Benjamin and in the places around Jerusalem and in the cities of Judah, the flocks will again pass under the hands of him who numbers them, says Jehovah.

¹⁹ Therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and he will carry off her multitude and take her spoil and take her prey. And it will be the wages for his army.

³³ The lord Jehovah says thus: In the day that I cleanse you* from all your* iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited and the waste places will be built. ³⁴ And the land that was desolate will be tilled, rather than a desolation in the sight of all who passed by. ³⁵ And they will say, This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. And the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.

⁸ After many days you will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, upon the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste, but it is brought forth out of the peoples and they will dwell securely, all of them.

⁸ And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod and he who holds the scepter from Ashkelon. And I will turn my hand against Ekron and the remnant of the Philistines will perish, says the lord Jehovah.

¹² Then the messenger of Jehovah answered and said, O Jehovah of hosts, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?

¹⁷ Cry yet again, saying, Jehovah of hosts says thus: My cities will yet overflow with prosperity and Jehovah will yet comfort Zion and will yet choose Jerusalem.

⁸ I will whistle for them and gather them. For I have redeemed them and they will increase as they have increased. ⁹ And I will sow them among the peoples and they will remember me in far countries. And they will live with their sons and will return.
¹⁰ I will also bring them again out of the land of Egypt and gather them out of Assyria. And I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon and until space will not be found for them.

⁷ Awake, O sword, against my shepherd and against the man who is my companion, says Jehovah of hosts. Strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered. And I will turn my hand upon the little ones.