Ezek 36
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And thou son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say: Ye mountains of
Israel, hear the word of the Lord:
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Thus saith the Lord God: Because the enemy hath said of you: Aha, the everlasting
heights are given to us for an inheritance.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For lo I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be ploughed and sown.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Thus saith the Lord God: Because they say of you: Thou art a devourer of men, and
one that suffocatest thy nation:
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Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, nor destroy thy nation any more, saith the
Lord God:
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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.
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And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And I have regarded my own holy name, which the house of Israel hath profaned among
the nations to which they went in.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And you shall remember your wicked ways, and your doings that were not good: and your
iniquities, and your wicked deeds shall displease you.
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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.
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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,
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And the desolate land shall be tilled, which before was waste in the sight of all
that passed by,
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.