Ezekiel 36

1You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, “You mountains of Israel, hear Yahweh’s word.Cross-references: Jer 22:29 · Ezek 6:2 · Ezek 20:47 · Ezek 33:28 · Ezek 34:14 · Ezek 36:4 · +3 more

2The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because the enemy has said against you, “Aha!” and, “The ancient high places are ours in possession!”’Cross-references: Deut 32:13 · Ps 78:69 · Isa 58:14 · Jer 49:1 · Ezek 25:3 · Ezek 26:2 · +3 more

3therefore prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;”Cross-references: Lev 26:43 · Deut 28:37 · 1Ki 9:7 · Job 30:1 · Ps 35:15 · Ps 35:25 · +19 more

4therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: The Lord Yahweh says to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which have become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are all around;Cross-references: Deut 11:11 · 2Chr 36:17 · Ps 79:4 · Isa 6:11 · Isa 24:1 · Isa 64:10 · +8 more

5therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Surely in the fire of my jealousy I have spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey.”’Cross-references: Deut 4:24 · Ps 83:4 · Ps 137:7 · Prov 17:5 · Prov 24:17 · Isa 34:1 · +20 more

6Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and tell the mountains, the hills, the watercourses and the valleys, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you have borne the shame of the nations.”Cross-references: Ps 74:10 · Ps 74:18 · Ps 74:23 · Ps 123:3 · Ezek 34:29 · Ezek 36:4 · +1 more

7Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “I have sworn, ‘Surely the nations that are around you will bear their shame.’Cross-references: Deut 32:40 · Jer 25:9 · Jer 25:15 · Jer 47:1 · Ezek 20:5 · Ezek 20:15 · +4 more

8“‘“But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot out your branches and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to come.Cross-references: Ps 67:6 · Ps 85:12 · Isa 4:2 · Isa 27:6 · Isa 30:23 · Ezek 12:25 · +7 more

9For, behold, I am for you, and I will come to you, and you will be tilled and sown.Cross-references: Ps 46:11 · Ps 99:8 · Ezek 36:34 · Hos 2:21 · Joel 3:18 · Hag 2:19 · +3 more

10I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, even all of it. The cities will be inhabited and the waste places will be built.Cross-references: Isa 27:6 · Isa 41:17 · Isa 49:17 · Isa 51:3 · Isa 52:9 · Isa 58:12 · +9 more

11I will multiply man and animal on you. They will increase and be fruitful. I will cause you to be inhabited as you were before, and you will do better than at your beginnings. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.Cross-references: Job 42:12 · Isa 30:26 · Isa 52:4 · Isa 54:7 · Jer 23:5 · Jer 30:18 · +18 more

12Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even my people Israel. They will possess you, and you will be their inheritance, and you will never again bereave them of their children.”Cross-references: Num 13:32 · Jer 15:7 · Jer 32:15 · Jer 32:44 · Ezek 36:13 · Ezek 47:14 · +1 more

13“‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because they say to you, ‘You are a devourer of men, and have been a bereaver of your nation;’Cross-references: Num 13:32

14therefore you shall devour men no more, and not bereave your nation any more,” says the Lord Yahweh.Cross-references: Isa 60:21 · Ezek 37:25 · Amos 9:15

15“I won’t let you hear the shame of the nations any more. You won’t bear the reproach of the peoples any more, and you won’t cause your nation to stumble any more,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”Cross-references: Ps 89:50 · Isa 54:4 · Isa 60:14 · Ezek 34:29 · Ezek 36:6 · Mic 7:8 · +2 more

16Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

17“Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and by their deeds. Their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.Cross-references: Lev 15:19 · Lev 18:24 · Num 35:33 · Ps 106:37 · Isa 24:5 · Isa 64:6 · +5 more

18Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols.Cross-references: 2Chr 34:21 · 2Chr 34:26 · Isa 42:25 · Jer 7:20 · Jer 44:6 · Lam 2:4 · +9 more

19I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. I judged them according to their way and according to their deeds.Cross-references: Lev 26:38 · Deut 28:64 · Ezek 5:12 · Ezek 7:3 · Ezek 7:8 · Ezek 18:30 · +6 more

20When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name, in that men said of them, ‘These are Yahweh’s people, and have left his land.’Cross-references: Ex 32:11 · Num 14:15 · Josh 7:9 · 2Ki 18:30 · 2Ki 18:35 · 2Ki 19:10 · +5 more

21But I had respect for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went.Cross-references: Deut 32:26 · Ps 74:18 · Isa 37:35 · Isa 48:9 · Ezek 20:9 · Ezek 20:14 · +1 more

22“Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “I don’t do this for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went.Cross-references: Deut 7:7 · Deut 9:5 · Ps 106:8 · Ps 115:1 · Ezek 36:32

23I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh,” says the Lord Yahweh, “when I am proven holy in you before their eyes.Cross-references: Ex 15:4 · Num 20:12 · Ps 46:10 · Ps 102:13 · Ps 126:1 · Isa 5:16 · +12 more

24“‘“For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.Cross-references: Deut 30:3 · Ps 107:2 · Isa 11:11 · Isa 27:12 · Isa 43:5 · Jer 23:3 · +13 more

25I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.Cross-references: Lev 14:5 · Num 8:7 · Num 19:13 · Ps 51:2 · Ps 51:7 · Prov 30:12 · +26 more

26I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.Cross-references: Deut 30:6 · Ps 51:10 · Jer 32:39 · Ezek 11:19 · Zech 7:12 · Matt 13:5 · +9 more

27I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.Cross-references: Prov 1:23 · Isa 44:3 · Isa 59:21 · Jer 31:33 · Ezek 37:14 · Ezek 37:24 · +22 more

28You will dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. You will be my people, and I will be your God.Cross-references: Song 6:3 · Jer 30:22 · Jer 31:33 · Jer 32:38 · Ezek 11:20 · Ezek 14:11 · +14 more

29I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you.Cross-references: Ps 105:6 · Jer 33:8 · Ezek 34:27 · Ezek 36:8 · Ezek 36:25 · Hos 2:21 · +12 more

30I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations.Cross-references: Lev 26:4 · Deut 29:23 · Ezek 34:27 · Joel 2:17 · Joel 2:26

31“‘“Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.Cross-references: Lev 26:39 · Ezra 9:6 · Neh 9:26 · Job 42:6 · Isa 6:5 · Isa 64:6 · +9 more

32I don’t do this for your sake,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Let it be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of Israel.”Cross-references: Deut 9:5 · Ezra 9:6 · Ezek 16:63 · Ezek 36:22 · Dan 9:18 · Rom 6:21 · +3 more

33“‘The Lord Yahweh says: “In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited and the waste places will be built.Cross-references: Isa 58:12 · Jer 32:43 · Jer 33:10 · Jer 50:19 · Ezek 36:10 · Amos 9:14 · +1 more

34The land that was desolate will be tilled instead of being a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.Cross-references: Deut 29:23 · 2Chr 36:21 · Jer 25:9 · Ezek 6:14

35They will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The waste, desolate, and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.’Cross-references: Gen 2:8 · Gen 13:10 · Ps 58:11 · Ps 64:9 · Ps 126:2 · Isa 51:3 · +3 more

36Then the nations that are left around you will know that I, Yahweh, have built the ruined places and planted that which was desolate. I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and I will do it.”Cross-references: Num 23:19 · Ezek 17:24 · Ezek 22:14 · Ezek 24:14 · Ezek 34:30 · Ezek 37:14 · +5 more

37“‘The Lord Yahweh says: “For this, moreover, I will be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.Cross-references: Ps 10:17 · Ps 102:17 · Isa 55:6 · Jer 29:11 · Jer 50:4 · Ezek 14:3 · +11 more

38As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so the waste cities will be filled with flocks of men. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’”Cross-references: Ex 23:17 · Ex 34:23 · Deut 16:16 · 1Ki 8:63 · 2Chr 7:8 · 2Chr 30:21 · +9 more