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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 MSB</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="../">MSB</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/msb/menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Majority Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/bsb/heb/ezekiel/36.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">A Prophecy to the Mountains of Israel<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/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 LORD. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>This is what the Lord GOD says: Because the enemy has said of you, ‘Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession,’ <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>therefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up in slander by the lips of their talkers, <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. <p class="reg"> 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 a spoil and a mockery to the rest of the nations around you. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Surely in My burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who took My land as their own possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, so that its pastureland became plunder. <A name="7"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Therefore, prophesy concerning the land of Israel and tell the mountains and hills, the ravines and valleys, that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I have spoken in My burning zeal because you have endured the reproach of the nations. <A name="8"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I have sworn with an uplifted hand that surely the nations around you will endure reproach of their own. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But you, O mountains of Israel, will produce branches and bear fruit for My people Israel, for they will soon come home. <A name="10"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For behold, I am on your side; I will turn toward you, and you will be tilled and sown. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I will multiply the people upon you—the house of Israel in its entirety. The cities will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I will fill you with people and animals, and they will multiply and be fruitful. I will make you as inhabited as you once were, and I will make you prosper more than before. Then you will know that I am the LORD. <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Yes, I will cause My people Israel to walk upon you; they will possess you, and you will be their inheritance, and you will no longer deprive them of their children. <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For this is what the Lord GOD says: Because people say to you, ‘You devour men and deprive your nation of its children,’ <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>therefore you will no longer devour men or deprive your nation of its children, declares the Lord GOD. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I will no longer allow the taunts of the nations to be heard against you, and you will no longer endure the reproach of the peoples or cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord GOD.” <A name="17"></a><p class="hdg">A New Heart and a New Spirit<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../romans/8.htm#9">Romans 8:9–11</a>; <a href ="../galatians/5.htm#16">Galatians 5:16–26</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“Son of man, when the people of Israel lived in their land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds. Their behavior before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman’s impurity. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>So I poured out My wrath upon them because of the blood they had shed on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols. <A name="20"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>I dispersed them among the nations, and they were scattered throughout the lands. I judged them according to their ways and deeds. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And wherever they went among the nations, they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, ‘These are the people of the LORD, yet they had to leave His land.’ <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/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 had gone. <A name="23"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: It is not for your sake that I will act, O house of Israel, but for My holy name, which you profaned among the nations to which you went. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>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 Lord GOD, when I show My holiness in you before their eyes. <A name="25"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and I will bring you back into your own land. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/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 to carefully observe My ordinances. <A name="29"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Then you will live in the land that I gave your forefathers; you will be My people, and I will be your God. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will summon the grain and make it plentiful, and I will not bring famine upon you. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>I will also make the fruit of the trees and the crops of the field plentiful, so that you will no longer bear reproach among the nations on account of famine. <A name="32"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Then you will remember your evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and abominations. <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>It is not for your sake that I will act, declares the Lord GOD—let it be known to you. Be ashamed and disgraced for your ways, O house of Israel! <A name="34"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>This is what the Lord GOD says: On the day I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be resettled and the ruins to be rebuilt. <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through. <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Then they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and destroyed are now fortified and inhabited.’ <A name="37"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Then the nations around you that remain will know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt what was destroyed, and I have replanted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it. <A name="38"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>This is what the Lord GOD says: Once again I will hear the plea of the house of Israel and do for them this: I will multiply their people like a flock. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/36-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>Like the numerous flocks for sacrifices at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so the ruined cities will be filled with flocks of people. 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