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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Ezekiel 36 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ezekiel/36.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/ezekiel/36-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Ezekiel 36</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a 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">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/ezekiel/36.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Restoration for Israel</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Son of man, prophesy to Israel’s mountains. Give them this message: O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Your enemies have taunted you, saying, ‘Aha! Now the ancient heights belong to us!’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Therefore, son of man, give the mountains of Israel this message from the Sovereign LORD: Your enemies have attacked you from all directions, making you the property of many nations and the object of much mocking and slander. <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 Sovereign LORD. He speaks to the hills and mountains, ravines and valleys, and to ruined wastes and long-deserted cities that have been destroyed and mocked by the surrounding nations. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>This is what the Sovereign LORD says: My jealous anger burns against these nations, especially Edom, because they have shown utter contempt for me by gleefully taking my land for themselves as plunder.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“Therefore, prophesy to the hills and mountains, the ravines and valleys of Israel. This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am furious that you have suffered shame before the surrounding nations. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I have taken a solemn oath that those nations will soon have their own shame to endure.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“But the mountains of Israel will produce heavy crops of fruit for my people—for they will be coming home again soon! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>See, I care about you, and I will pay attention to you. Your ground will be plowed and your crops planted. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I will greatly increase the population of Israel, and the ruined cities will be rebuilt and filled with people. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I will increase not only the people, but also your animals. O mountains of Israel, I will bring people to live on you once again. I will make you even more prosperous than you were before. Then you will know that I am the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I will cause my people to walk on you once again, and you will be their territory. You will never again rob them of their children.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“This is what the Sovereign LORD says: The other nations taunt you, saying, ‘Israel is a land that devours its own people and robs them of their children!’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But you will never again devour your people or rob them of their children, says the Sovereign LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I will not let you hear those other nations insult you, and you will no longer be mocked by them. You will not be a land that causes its nation to fall, says the Sovereign LORD.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then this further message came to me from the LORD: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“Son of man, when the people of Israel were living in their own land, they defiled it by the evil way they lived. To me their conduct was as unclean as a woman’s menstrual cloth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>They polluted the land with murder and the worship of idols,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> so I poured out my fury on them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>I scattered them to many lands to punish them for the evil way they had lived. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But when they were scattered among the nations, they brought shame on my holy name. For the nations said, ‘These are the people of the LORD, but he couldn’t keep them safe in his own land!’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then I was concerned for my holy name, on which my people brought shame among the nations.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“Therefore, give the people of Israel this message from the Sovereign LORD: I am bringing you back, but not because you deserve it. I am doing it to protect my holy name, on which you brought shame while you were scattered among the nations. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>I will show how holy my great name is—the name on which you brought shame among the nations. And when I reveal my holiness through you before their very eyes, says the Sovereign LORD, then the nations will know that I am the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>For I will gather you up from all the nations and bring you home again to your land.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>“Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. Your filth will be washed away, and you will no longer worship idols. <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 I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And I will put my Spirit in you so that you will follow my decrees and be careful to obey my regulations.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>“And you will live in Israel, the land I gave your ancestors long ago. You will 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>I will cleanse you of your filthy behavior. I will give you good crops of grain, and I will send no more famines on the land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>I will give you great harvests from your fruit trees and fields, and never again will the surrounding nations be able to scoff at your land for its famines. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Then you will remember your past sins and despise yourselves for all the detestable things you did. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>But remember, says the Sovereign LORD, I am not doing this because you deserve it. O my people of Israel, you should be utterly ashamed of all you have done!</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>“This is what the Sovereign LORD says: When I cleanse you from your sins, I will repopulate your cities, and the ruins will be rebuilt. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>The fields that used to lie empty and desolate in plain view of everyone will again be farmed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And when I bring you back, people will say, ‘This former wasteland is now like the Garden of Eden! The abandoned and ruined cities now have strong walls and are filled with people!’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Then the surrounding nations that survive will know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt the ruins and replanted the wasteland. For I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do what I say.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>“This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am ready to hear Israel’s prayers and to increase their numbers like a flock. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/36-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>They will be as numerous as the sacred flocks that fill Jerusalem’s streets at the time of her festivals. The ruined cities will be crowded with people once more, and everyone will know that I am the LORD.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">36:18 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew term (literally </span><span class="it">round things</span><span class="ft">) probably alludes to dung; also in 36:25.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">36:26 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">a heart of flesh.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of <a href="http://www.tyndale.com">Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.</a>, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. 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