Ezekiel 36:1-15

The Future Restoration of Israel

36¹ And you, son of man, be a prophet about the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord: ² This is what the Lord has said: Because your hater has said against you, Aha! and, The old waste places are our heritage, we have taken them: ³ For this cause be a prophet, and say, This is what the Lord has said: Because, even because they have been glad over you and put you to shame on every side, because you have become a heritage for the rest of the nations, and you are taken up on the lips of talkers and in the evil talk of the people: ⁴ For this reason, you mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord; this is what the Lord has said to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, to the unpeopled wastes and to the towns where no one is living, from which the goods have been taken and which have been put to shame by the rest of the nations who are round about: ⁵ For this cause the Lord has said: Truly, in the heat of my bitter feeling I have said things against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who have taken my land as a heritage for themselves with the joy of all their heart, and with bitter envy of soul have made attacks on it: ⁶ For this cause be a prophet about the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, This is what the Lord has said: Truly, in my bitter feeling and in my wrath I have said these things, because you have undergone the shame of the nations: ⁷ For this cause the Lord has said, See, I have taken an oath that the nations which are round about you are themselves to undergo the shame which they have put on you. ⁸ But you, O mountains of Israel, will put out your branches and give your fruit to my people Israel; for they are ready to come. ⁹ For truly I am for you, and I will be turned to you, and you will be ploughed and planted: ¹⁰ And I will let your numbers be increased, all the children of Israel, even all of them: and the towns will be peopled and the waste places will have buildings; ¹¹ Man and beast will be increased in you, and they will have offspring and be fertile: I will make you thickly peopled as you were before, and will do more for you than at the first: and you will be certain that I am the Lord. ¹² Yes, I will have you walked on by the feet of men, even my people Israel; they will have you for a heritage and you will be theirs, and never again will you take their children from them. ¹³ This is what the Lord has said: Because they say to you, You, O land, are the destruction of men, causing loss of children to your nation; ¹⁴ For this reason you will no longer take the lives of men and will never again be the cause of loss of children to your nation, says the Lord. ¹⁵ And I will not let the shaming of the nations come to your ears, and no longer will you be looked down on by the peoples, says the Lord.