Search results for: Ezekiel 36:26–27

Ezekiel 36:26 (NIV)

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

Ezekiel 36:27 (NIV)

And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.

Therefore prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because they ravaged and crushed you from every side so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations and the object of people’s malicious talk and slander,

Ezekiel 36:4 (NIV)

therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Sovereign Lord : This is what the Sovereign Lord says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and the deserted towns that have been plundered and ridiculed by the rest of the nations around you—

Ezekiel 36:5 (NIV)

this is what the Sovereign Lord says: In my burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, for with glee and with malice in their hearts they made my land their own possession so that they might plunder its pastureland.’

Ezekiel 36:6 (NIV)

Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I speak in my jealous wrath because you have suffered the scorn of the nations.

Ezekiel 36:7 (NIV)

Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I swear with uplifted hand that the nations around you will also suffer scorn.

Ezekiel 36:8 (NIV)

“ ‘But you, mountains of Israel, will produce branches and fruit for my people Israel, for they will soon come home.

Ezekiel 36:9 (NIV)

I am concerned for you and will look on you with favor; you will be plowed and sown,

Ezekiel 36:10 (NIV)

and I will cause many people to live on you—yes, all of Israel. The towns will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.

Ezekiel 36:11 (NIV)

I will increase the number of people and animals living on you, and they will be fruitful and become numerous. I will settle people on you as in the past and will make you prosper more than before. Then you will know that I am the Lord .

Ezekiel 36:12 (NIV)

I will cause people, my people Israel, to live on you. They will possess you, and you will be their inheritance; you will never again deprive them of their children.

Ezekiel 36:13 (NIV)

“ ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because some say to you, “You devour people and deprive your nation of its children,”

Ezekiel 36:14 (NIV)

therefore you will no longer devour people or make your nation childless, declares the Sovereign Lord .

Ezekiel 36:15 (NIV)

No longer will I make you hear the taunts of the nations, and no longer will you suffer the scorn of the peoples or cause your nation to fall, declares the Sovereign Lord .’ ”

Ezekiel 36:1 (NIV)

“Son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say, ‘Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord .

Ezekiel 36:2 (NIV)

This is what the Sovereign Lord says: The enemy said of you, “Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession.” ’

Ezekiel 36:16 (NIV)

Again the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 36:17 (NIV)

“Son of man, when the people of Israel were living in their own land, they defiled it by their conduct and their actions. Their conduct was like a woman’s monthly uncleanness in my sight.

Ezekiel 36:18 (NIV)

So I poured out my wrath on them because they had shed blood in the land and because they had defiled it with their idols.

Ezekiel 36:19 (NIV)

I dispersed them among the nations, and they were scattered through the countries; I judged them according to their conduct and their actions.

Ezekiel 36:20 (NIV)

And wherever they went among the nations they profaned my holy name, for it was said of them, ‘These are the Lord ’s people, and yet they had to leave his land.’

Ezekiel 36:21 (NIV)

I had concern for my holy name, which the people of Israel profaned among the nations where they had gone.

Ezekiel 36:22 (NIV)

“Therefore say to the Israelites, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: It is not for your sake, people of Israel, that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you have gone.

Ezekiel 36:23 (NIV)

I will show the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord , declares the Sovereign Lord , when I am proved holy through you before their eyes.