Ezekiel 36

Restoration of Israel’s Mountains

1“Son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say, ‘Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord. # 36:1 Ezk 6:2 2This is what the Lord God says: Because the enemy has said about you, “Aha! # 36:2 Ezk 25:3; 26:2 The ancient heights # 36:2 Dt 32:13 have become our possession,” ’ 3therefore, prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Lord God says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you from every side, so that you became a possession for the rest of the nations and an object of people’s gossip and slander, # 36:3 Ezk 35:13 4therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God. This is what the Lord God says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, which have become plunder # 36:4 Ezk 34:8,28 and a mockery to the rest of the nations all around.

5“ ‘This is what the Lord God says: Certainly in my burning zeal I speak against the rest of the nations and all of Edom, # 36:5 Dt 4:24 who took # 36:5 Lit gave my land as their own possession with wholehearted rejoicing and utter contempt # 36:5 Ezk 35:10,15 so that its pastureland became # 36:5 Or contempt, to empty it of; Hb obscure plunder. 6Therefore, prophesy concerning Israel’s land, and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: This is what the Lord God says: Look, I speak in my burning zeal # 36:6 Ps 74:10; 123:3–4 because you have endured the insults of the nations. 7Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: I swear # 36:7 Lit lift up my hand that the nations all around you will endure their own insults. # 36:7 Ezk 20:5

8“ ‘You, mountains of Israel, will produce your branches # 36:8 Ezk 17:23 and bear your fruit for my people Israel, since their arrival is near. 9Look! I am on your side; I will turn toward you, # 36:9 Lv 26:9 and you will be tilled and sown. 10I will fill you with people, with the whole house of Israel in its entirety. # 36:10 Ezk 37:21–22 The cities will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt. 11I will fill you with people and animals, # 36:11 Jr 33:12 and they will increase and be fruitful. I will make you inhabited as you once were and make you better off than you were before. Then you will know that I am the Lord. # 36:11 Is 51:3 12I will cause people, my people Israel, to walk on you; they will possess you, # 36:12 Ob 17 and you will be their inheritance. You will no longer deprive them of their children.

13“ ‘This is what the Lord God says: Because some are saying to you, “You devour people and deprive your nation of children,” # 36:13 Nm 13:32 14therefore, you will no longer devour people and deprive your nation of children. # 36:14 Alt Hb tradition reads and cause your nation to stumble This is the declaration of the Lord God. 15I will no longer allow the insults of the nations to be heard against you, and you will not have to endure the reproach of the peoples anymore; # 36:15 Ezk 34:29 you will no longer cause your nation to stumble. # 36:15 Some Hb mss, Tg read no longer bereave your nation of children This is the declaration of the Lord God.’ ”

Restoration of Israel’s People

16The word of the Lord came to me: 17“Son of man, while the house of Israel lived in their land, they defiled it with their conduct and actions. # 36:17 Jr 2:7 Their behavior before me was like menstrual impurity. # 36:17 Lv 15:19 18So I poured out my wrath # 36:18 Ezk 16:36; 22:3 on them because of the blood they had shed on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols. 19I dispersed them among the nations, and they were scattered among the countries. # 36:19 Dt 28:64; Ezk 22:15 I judged them according to their conduct and actions. # 36:19 Rm 2:6 20When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name, # 36:20 Is 52:5; Rm 2:24 because it was said about them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, yet they had to leave his land in exile.’ 21Then I had concern for my holy name, # 36:21 Is 48:9; Ezk 20:44 which the house of Israel profaned among the nations where they went.

22“Therefore, say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the Lord God says: It is not for your sake that I will act, # 36:22 Dt 9:5 house of Israel, but for my holy name, # 36:22 Ps 115:1; Is 43:25; 48:11; Ezk 20:9; Dn 9:18–19 which you profaned among the nations where you went. 23I will honor the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations — the name you have profaned among them. The nations will know that I am the Lord — this is the declaration of the Lord God — when I demonstrate my holiness through you in their sight. # 36:23 Ezk 20:41; 38:23; 39:7,25

24“ ‘For I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries, and will bring you into your own land. # 36:24 Ezk 34:13; 37:21 25I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. # 36:25 Ps 51:7; Heb 9:13,19; 10:22 I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols. # 36:25 Jr 33:8 26I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; # 36:26 Ezk 18:31; Jl 2:28 I will remove your heart of stone # 36:26 Lit stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. # 36:26 Dt 30:6; Ezk 11:19; 2Co 3:3 27I will place my Spirit within you # 36:27 Ezk 37:14 and cause you to follow my statutes and carefully observe my ordinances. # 36:27 Jr 24:7; 31:33; 32:40 28You will live in the land that I gave your ancestors; # 36:28 Ezk 37:23–25 you will be my people, and I will be your God. # 36:28 Ezk 34:30 29I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will summon the grain and make it plentiful, and I will not bring famine on you. # 36:29–30 Ezk 34:27,29 30I will also make the fruit of the trees and the produce of the field plentiful, so that you will no longer experience reproach among the nations on account of famine.

31“ ‘You will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good, # 36:31 Ezk 16:61–63 and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and detestable practices. # 36:31 Ezk 6:9; 20:43 32It is not for your sake that I will act # 36:32 Dt 9:5 — this is the declaration of the Lord God — let this be known to you. Be ashamed and humiliated because of your ways, house of Israel!

33“ ‘This is what the Lord God says: On the day I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the ruins will be rebuilt. # 36:33 Ezk 36:10 34The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by. 35They will say, “This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. # 36:35 Is 51:3; Jl 2:3 The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and demolished are now fortified and inhabited.” 36Then the nations that remain around you will know that I, the Lord, have rebuilt what was demolished and have replanted what was desolate. I, the Lord, have spoken and I will do it. # 36:36 Ezk 17:24

37“ ‘This is what the Lord God says: I will respond to the house of Israel and do this for them: # 36:37 Ezk 14:3 I will multiply them in number like a flock. # 36:37 Lit flock of people 38So the ruined cities will be filled with a flock of people, just as Jerusalem # 36:38 2Ch 35:7–9 is filled with a flock of sheep for sacrifice # 36:38 Lit as the consecrated flock, as the flock of Jerusalem during its appointed festivals. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’ ”

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Yechezkel 36

1Also, thou Ben Adam, prophesy unto the harim of Yisroel, and say, Ye harim of Yisroel hear the Devar Hashem. 2Thus saith Adonoi Hashem: Because the oyev hath said against you, Aha, even the bamot olam (ancient heights) are ours in possession, 3Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith Adonoi Hashem: Because they have made you desolate, and crushed you on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the she'erit HaGoyim, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are slandered by the people: 4Therefore, ye harim of Yisroel, hear the Devar Adonoi Hashem: Thus saith Adonoi Hashem to the harim, and to the geva'ot, to the ravines, and to the ge'ayot, to desolate ruins, to towns deserted which became a plunder and mockery to the she'erit HaGoyim that are all around; 5Therefore thus saith Adonoi Hashem: Surely in the eish of My kina have I spoken against the she'erit HaGoyim, and against all Edom, which have given My land into their possession with simchat kol levav, with she'at nefesh (scorn of soul, contempt), as her migrash for plunder. 6Prophesy therefore concerning Admat Yisroel, and say unto the harim, and to the geva'ot (hills), to the ravines, and to the ge'ayot (valleys), Thus saith Adonoi Hashem: Hineni, I have spoken in My kina (jealousy) and in My chemah (fury), because ye have borne the scorn of the Goyim; 7Therefore thus saith Adonoi Hashem; I have lifted up Mine yad [in oath-taking], Surely the Goyim that are around you, they shall bear their own scorn.

8But ye, O harim of Yisroel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your p'ri to My people Yisroel; for their return [home] is at hand. 9For, hineni, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be plowed and sown; 10And I will multiply adam upon you, kol Bais Yisroel, even all of it; and the towns shall be inhabited, and the ruins shall be rebuilt; 11And I will multiply upon you adam and behemah; and they shall increase and become numerous; and I will make you inhabited as in former times, and I will make you more prosperous than before; and ye shall know that I am Hashem. 12Indeed, I will cause adam to walk upon you, even My people Yisroel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their nachalah, and thou shalt no more again bereave them of their children. 13Thus saith Adonoi Hashem: Because they say unto you, Thou art a land which devourest adam, and hast bereaved thy nation of children; 14Therefore thou shalt devour adam no more, neither bereave thy nation any more, saith Adonoi Hashem. 15Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the taunts of the Goyim any more, neither shalt thou bear the cherpah of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nation to stumble any more, saith Adonoi Hashem.

16Moreover the Devar Hashem came unto me, saying, 17Ben adam, when Bais Yisroel dwelt in their own land, they made it tameh by their own derech and by their doings; their derech was before Me as the tumat haniddah (contamination of a woman during her menstrual period). 18Therefore I poured My chemah upon them for their shefach dahm upon ha'aretz, for their gillulim wherewith they had made it tameh; 19And I scattered them among the Goyim, and they were dispersed through the countries; according to their derech and according to their doings I judged them. 20And when they entered unto the Goyim, to where they went, they profaned Shem Kodshi (Name of My Holiness, Holy Name), when they said to them, These are the Am Hashem, and are gone forth out of His land. 21But I had concern for Shem Kodshi (Name of My Holiness, Holy Name), which Bais Yisroel had profaned among the Goyim, where they went. 22Therefore say unto Bais Yisroel, thus saith Adonoi Hashem: I do not this for your sakes, O Bais Yisroel, but for the sake of Shem Kodshi, which ye have profaned among Goyim where ye went. 23And I will show as kodesh My Shem HaGadol, which was profaned among the Goyim, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the Goyim shall know that I am Hashem, saith Adonoi Hashem, when I shall be set apart as kodesh in you before their eynayim. 24For I will take you from among the Goyim, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own adamah (land). 25Then will I sprinkle mayim tehorim upon you, and ye shall be tahor; from all your tum'a, and from all your gillulim (idols), will I make you tahor. 26A lev chadash also will I give you, and a ruach chadashah will I put within you; and I will take away the lev haeven (stony heart) out of your basar, and I will give you a lev basar. 27And I will put My Ruach#36:27 Hakodesh within you, and cause you to walk in My chukkot, and ye shall be shomer over My mishpatim, and do them. 28And ye shall dwell in ha'aretz that I gave to avoteichem; and ye shall be My people, and I will be your Elohim. 29I will also save you from all your tumot (unclean-nesses); and I will call for the dagan (grain), and will increase it, and lay no ra'av (famine) upon you. 30And I will multiply the p'ri ha'etz, and the increase of the sadeh, that ye shall receive no more cherpah of ra'av (famine) among the Goyim. 31Then shall ye remember your own drakhim ra'im, and your doings that were not tovim, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your avonot and for your to'avot. 32Not for your sakes do I this, saith Adonoi Hashem, be it known unto you; be ashamed and humiliated for your own drakhim, O Bais Yisroel.

33Thus saith Adonoi Hashem; In the day that I shall have made you tahor from all your avonot, I will also cause you to resettle the towns, and the ruins shall be rebuilt. 34And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay shemamah (desolate) in the sight of all that passed by. 35And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like Gan Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined towns are become fortified, and are inhabited. 36Then the Goyim that are left all around you shall know that I Hashem rebuilt the ruined places, and replanted that that was desolate; I Hashem have spoken it, and I will do it.

37Thus saith Adonoi Hashem: Also I will be inquired of by Bais Yisroel, to act in behalf of them; I will increase them adam as numberous as tzon. 38As the tzon kadashim, as the tzon Yerushalayim in her mo'adim, so shall the ruined cities be filled with tzon adam; and they shall know that I am Hashem.

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