Ezk Ezekiel, chapter Book of Ezekiel, chapter 36
“And you, son of man, prophesy to mountains of Israel, and you have said, O mountains of Israel, hear a word of YHWH! Thus said Lord YHWH: Because the enemy said against yöu, Aha! The high places of old have also become our possession, therefore, prophesy, and you have said, Thus said Lord YHWH: Because, even because, of desolating, || And of swallowing yöu up from all around, || For yöur being a possession to the remnant of the nations, || And yöu are taken up on the tip of the tongue, || And [are] an evil report to the people. Therefore, O mountains of Israel, || Hear a word of Lord YHWH! Thus said Lord YHWH, to mountains, and to hills, || To streams, and to valleys, || And to ruins that [are] desolate, || And to cities that are forsaken, || That have been for a prey, || And for a scorn, to the remnant of the surrounding nations, Therefore, thus said Lord YHWH: 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? Therefore, prophesy concerning the ground of Israel, || And you have said to mountains, and to hills, || To streams, and to valleys, || Thus said Lord YHWH: Behold, I, in My jealousy and in My fury, have spoken, || Because yöu have borne the shame of nations. Therefore, thus said Lord YHWH: I have lifted up My hand, || Do the nations who [are] surrounding yöu not bear their own shame? And yöu, O mountains of Israel, || Yöu give out yöur branch, || And yöu bear yöur fruits for My people Israel, || For they have drawn near to come. For behold, I [am] for yöu, and have turned to yöu, || And yöu have been tilled and sown. And I have multiplied men on yöu, || All the house of Israel—all of it, || And the cities have been inhabited, || And the ruins are built. And I have multiplied man and beast on yöu, || And they have multiplied and been fruitful, || And I have caused yöu to dwell according to yöur former states, || And I have done better than at yöur beginnings, || And yöu have known that I [am] YHWH. And I have caused man to walk over yöu—My people Israel, || And they possess you, and you have been their inheritance, || And you no longer add to bereave them. Thus said Lord YHWH: Because they are saying to yöu, You [are] a devourer of men, || And you have been a bereaver of your nations, Therefore, you no longer devour man, || And you do not cause your nations to stumble anymore, || A declaration of Lord YHWH. And I do not proclaim the shame of the nations to you anymore, || And you no longer bear the reproach of peoples, || And your nations do not stumble anymore, || A declaration of Lord YHWH.” And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying, “Son of man, || The house of Israel are dwelling on their land, || And they defile it by their way and by their doings, || Their way has been as the uncleanness of a separated one before Me. And I pour out My fury on them || For the blood that they shed on the land, || And they have defiled it with their idols. 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. And one goes to the nations to where they have gone, || And they defile My holy Name by saying to them, || These [are] the people of YHWH, || And they have gone forth from His land. And I have pity on My holy Name, || That the house of Israel has defiled || Among the nations to where they have gone in. Therefore, say to the house of Israel, Thus said Lord YHWH: I am not working for yöur sake, || O house of Israel, but for My holy Name || That yöu have defiled || Among the nations to where yöu have gone in. And I have sanctified My great Name, || That is profaned among the nations, || That yöu have defiled in yöur midst, || And the nations have known that I [am] YHWH, || A declaration of Lord YHWH, || In My being sanctified in yöu before yöur eyes. And I have taken yöu out of the nations, || And have gathered yöu out of all the lands, || And I have brought yöu into yöur land, And I have sprinkled clean water over yöu, || And yöu have been clean; I cleanse yöu from all yöur uncleannesses, || And from all yöur idols. And I have given a new heart to yöu, || And I give a new spirit in yöur midst, || And I have turned aside the heart of stone out of yöur flesh, || And I have given a heart of flesh to yöu. And I give My Spirit in yöur midst, || And I have done this, so that yöu walk in My statutes, || And yöu keep My judgments, and have done them. And yöu have dwelt in the land that I have given to yöur fathers, || And yöu have been to Me for a people, || And I am to yöu for God. And I have saved yöu from all yöur uncleannesses, || And I have called to the grain, and multiplied it, || And I have put no famine on yöu. And I have multiplied the fruit of the tree, || And the increase of the field, || So that yöu do not receive a reproach of famine among nations anymore. And yöu have remembered yöur ways that [are] evil, || And yöur doings that [are] not good, || And have been loathsome in yöur own faces, || For yöur iniquities, and for yöur abominations. I am not working for yöur sake, || A declaration of Lord YHWH, || Be it known to yöu, || Be ashamed and confounded, because of yöur ways, || O house of Israel. Thus said Lord YHWH: In the day of My cleansing yöu from all yöur iniquities, || I have caused the cities to be inhabited, || And the ruins have been built, And the desolate land is tilled, || Instead of which it was a desolation before the eyes of everyone passing by, And they have said: This land, that was desolated, || Has been as the Garden of Eden, || And the cities—the dried up, || And the desolated, and the broken down, || [And the] fortified have remained. And the nations who are left around yöu have known || That I, YHWH, have built the thrown down, || I have planted the desolated: I, YHWH, have spoken, and I have done [it]. Thus said Lord YHWH: Yet this I am inquired of by the house of Israel to do for them: I multiply them as a flock of men, As a flock of holy ones, as a flock of Jerusalem, || In her appointed times, || So the dried up cities are full of flocks of man, || And they have known that I [am] YHWH!”