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href="../ezekiel/35.htm" title="Ezekiel 35">◄</a> Ezekiel 36 <a href="../ezekiel/37.htm" title="Ezekiel 37">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/ezekiel/36.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Prophecy to the Mountains of Israel</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Thus says the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>: Because the enemy said of you, ‘Aha!’ and, ‘The ancient heights have become our possession,’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>: Precisely because they made you desolate and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you became the talk and evil gossip of the people, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>: Thus says the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span> to the mountains and the hills, the ravines and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted cities, which have become a prey and derision to the rest of the nations all around, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>therefore thus says the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>: Surely I have spoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, Thus says the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>: Behold, I have spoken in my jealous wrath, because you have suffered the reproach of the nations. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Therefore thus says the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>: I swear that the nations that are all around you shall themselves suffer reproach.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“But you, O mountains of Israel, shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to my people Israel, for they will soon come home. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And I will multiply people on you, the whole house of Israel, all of it. The cities shall be inhabited and the waste places rebuilt. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And I will multiply on you man and beast, and they shall multiply and be fruitful. And I will cause you to be inhabited as in your former times, and will do more good to you than ever before. Then you will know that I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I will let people walk on you, even my people Israel. And they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no longer bereave them of children. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Thus says the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>: Because they say to you, ‘You devour people, and you bereave your nation of children,’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>therefore you shall no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And I will not let you hear anymore the reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>.”</p> <p class="heading">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>’s Concern for His Holy Name</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came to me: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds. Their ways before me were like the uncleanness of a woman in her menstrual impurity. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>So I poured out my wrath upon them for the blood that they had shed in the land, for the idols with which they had defiled it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. In accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, ‘These are the people of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and yet they had to go out of his land.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they came.</p> <p class="heading">I Will Put My Spirit Within You</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, declares the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or my just decrees">a</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses. And I will summon the grain and make it abundant and lay no famine upon you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>I will make the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field abundant, that you may never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominations. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>It is not for your sake that I will act, declares the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>; let that be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>“Thus says the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>: On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be rebuilt. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, instead of being the desolation that it was in the sight of all who passed by. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden, and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Then the nations that are left all around you shall know that I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>; I have rebuilt the ruined places and replanted that which was desolate. I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>; I have spoken, and I will do it.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>“Thus says the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>: This also I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: to increase their people like a flock. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>Like the flock for sacrifices,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew flock of holy things">b</a></sup></span> like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">27</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">my</span> just decrees</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">38</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">flock</span> of holy things</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited. 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