KJ3 Literal Translation
Ezekiel 36
The land of Israel is comforted, both by destruction of the nations, and by the promised blessings of Jehovah.
1And you, son of man, prophesy to Israel's mountains and say, O mountains of Israel, hear the Word of Jehovah.
2So says the Lord Jehovah: Because the enemy has spoken against you, saying, Aha! Everlasting high places have become a possession to us.
3So prophesy and say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Because, even because of the wasting and crushing of you from round about, that you might become a possession to the rest of the nations, and you are made to go up on the tip of the tongue and the whispering of the people.
4Therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the Word of the Lord Jehovah: So says the Lord Jehovah to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, to the wastes of desolation, and to the forsaken cities which became a prey and a mocking to the rest of the nations that are round about.
5So says the Lord Jehovah: Surely I have spoken in the fire of My jealousy against the rest of the nations, and against Edom, all those of her who have given My land to themselves for a possession with all joy of heart, with scorning of soul, in order to make it open land for a prey.
6So prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and in My fury, because you have borne the shame of the nations.
7So thus says the Lord Jehovah: I have lifted up My hand, surely the nations that are round about you, they shall bear their shame.
8But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall put out your branches and your fruit, you shall bear for My people Israel. For they are drawing near to come;
9for behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown.
10And I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, all of it. And the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be built.
11And I will multiply on you man and beast, and they will increase and be fruitful. And I will make you dwell as you formerly were, and I will do better than at your beginnings. And you shall know that I am Jehovah.
12And I will cause men to walk on you, My people Israel; and they shall possess you, and you will be an inheritance to them and will not any more add to their bereavement.
13So says the Lord Jehovah: Because they said to you, You are a devourer of men, and you have bereaved your nations;
14so you shall no longer devour men, and you shall not make your nations fall any more, a statement of the Lord Jehovah.
15And I will not let you bear the shame of the nations any longer, and you shall not bear the disgrace of the peoples any more, and you shall not cause your nations to fall any more, a statement of the Lord Jehovah.
16And the Word of Jehovah was to me, saying,
17Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt on their land, and they defiled it by their ways and by their doings; as the uncleanness of impurity their way was before Me.
18So I poured out My fury on them, because of the blood that they had poured out on the land, and for their idols by which they defiled it.
19And I scattered them among the nations, and they were sown among the lands; I judged them by their way and by their doings.
20And when they went into the nations, there where they went, they even profaned My holy name, by saying to them, These are the people of Jehovah, and they are gone out of His land.
21But I had pity for My holy name which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations, there to which they had gone in.
22Therefore, say to the house of Israel, So says the Lord Jehovah: I do not do this for your sake, O house of Israel, but only for My holy name which you profaned among the nations, there to which you had gone in.
23And I will sanctify My great name which was profaned among the nations, which you profaned in their midst, and the nations shall know that I am Jehovah when I am sanctified in you in their eyes; a statement of the Lord Jehovah.
24And I will take you from the nations and gather you out of all the lands and bring you into your land.
25And I will sprinkle clean waters on you, and you shall be clean. I will cleanse you from all your uncleannesses and from all your idols.
26And I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give to you a heart of flesh.
27And I will put My Spirit within you, and I have done that which is in My statutes for you to walk in them, and you shall keep My judgments and do them.
28And you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. And you shall be to Me for a people, and I will be to you for God.
29I will also save you from all your uncleannesses, and I will call for grain and increase it, and I will not put a famine on you.
30And I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the produce of the field, in order that you will not any more receive the disgrace of famine among the nations.
31And you will remember your evil ways and your doings that were not good, and you will despise yourselves in your own eyes for your iniquities and for your abominations.
32Let it be known to you that I am not doing this for your sake, a statement of the Lord Jehovah; be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.
33So says the Lord Jehovah: In the day I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the wastes shall be built.
34And the desolated land shall be cultivated, rather than being a ruin in the eyes of all passing by.
35And they shall say, This land that was desolated has become like the garden of Eden. And the wasted and desolated and torn down cities are fortified and inhabited.
36And the nations left all around you shall know that I, Jehovah, built the torn down places and planted that which was desolated. I, Jehovah, have spoken it and will do it.
37So says the Lord Jehovah: Yet for this I will be sought by the house of Israel, to work for them. I will increase them with men like a flock.
38Like a holy flock, like the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so the wasted cities shall be filled with flocks of men. And they shall know that I am Jehovah.
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