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The Prophecy
of Ezechiel 36
And thou son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel,
and say: Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the
Lord:
Thus saith the Lord God: Because the enemy hath said
of you: Aha, the everlasting heights are given to us
for an inheritance.
Therefore 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:
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 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.
Therefore 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.
Prophesy 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.
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: I have lifted up
my hand, that the Gentiles who are round about you,
shall themselves bear their shame.
But 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.
For lo I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you
shall be ploughed and sown.
And I will multiply men upon you, and all the house
of Israel: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the
ruinous places shall be repaired.
And 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.
And 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.
Thus saith the Lord God: Because they say of you: Thou
art a devourer of men, and one that suffocatest thy
nation:
Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, nor destroy
thy nation any more, saith the Lord God:
Neither 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.
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
Son 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.
And I poured out my indignation upon them for the blood
which they had shed upon the land, and with their idols
they defiled it.
And I scattered them among the nations, and they are
dispersed through the countries: I have judged them
according to their ways, and their devices.
And 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.
And I have regarded my own holy name, which the house
of Israel hath profaned among the nations to which they
went in.
Therefore 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.
And 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.
For 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.
And 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.
And 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.
And 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.
And you shall dwell in the land which I gave to your
fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your
God.
And 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.
And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase
of the held, that you bear no more the reproach of famine
among the nations.
And you shall remember your wicked ways, and your doings
that were not good: and your iniquities, and your wicked
deeds shall displease you.
It 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.
Thus 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,
And the desolate land shall be tilled, which before
was waste in the sight of all that passed by,
They 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.
And 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.
Thus 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,
As a holy dock, 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. |
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