Ezekiel 35
35Again a message came to me from the Lord:H1697H3068H5592“Son of man, turn and face Mount Seir, and prophesy against its people.H1121H120H7760H6440H2022H8165H50123Give them this message from the Sovereign Lord. “I am your enemy, O Mount Seir, and I will raise my fist against you to destroy you completely.H559H559H136H3069H2022H8165H5186H3027H5414H4923H80774I will demolish your cities and make you desolate. Then you will know that I am the Lord.H7760H5892H2723H8077H3045H30685“Your eternal hatred for the people of Israel led you to butcher them when they were helpless, when I had already punished them for all their sins.H5769H342H5064H1121H3478H3027H2719H6256H343H6256H5771H70936As surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord, since you show no distaste for blood, I will give you a bloodbath of your own. Your turn has come!H2416H5002H136H3069H6213H1818H1818H7291H518H8130H1818H1818H72917I will make Mount Seir utterly desolate, killing off all who try to escape and any who return.H5414H2022H8165H8077H8077H3772H5674H77258I will fill your mountains with the dead. Your hills, your valleys, and your ravines will be filled with people slaughtered by the sword.H4390H2022H2491H1389H1516H650H5307H2491H27199I will make you desolate forever. Your cities will never be rebuilt. Then you will know that I am the Lord.H5414H5769H8077H5892H7725H3427H3045H306810“For you said, ‘The lands of Israel and Judah will be ours. We will take possession of them. What do we care that the Lord is there!’H559H8147H1471H8147H776H3423H306811Therefore, as surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord, I will pay back your angry deeds with my own. I will punish you for all your acts of anger, envy, and hatred. And I will make myself known to Israel by what I do to you.H2416H5002H136H3069H6213H639H7068H6213H8135H3045H819912Then you will know that I, the Lord, have heard every contemptuous word you spoke against the mountains of Israel. For you said, ‘They are desolate; they have been given to us as food to eat!’H3045H3068H8085H5007H559H2022H3478H559H8074H8077H5414H40213In saying that, you boasted proudly against me, and I have heard it all!H6310H1431H6280H1697H808514“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: The whole world will rejoice when I make you desolate.H559H136H3069H776H8055H6213H807715You rejoiced at the desolation of Israel’s territory. Now I will rejoice at yours! You will be wiped out, you people of Mount Seir and all who live in Edom! Then you will know that I am the Lord.H8057H5159H1004H3478H8074H6213H8077H2022H8165H123H3045H3068
Ezekiel 36
36“Son of man, prophesy to Israel’s mountains. Give them this message: O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord!H1121H120H5012H2022H3478H559H2022H3478H8085H1697H30682This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Your enemies have taunted you, saying, ‘Aha! Now the ancient heights belong to us!’H559H136H3069H341H559H1889H5769H1116H41813Therefore, 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.H5012H559H559H136H3069H8074H7602H5439H4181H7611H1471H5927H8193H3956H1681H59714Therefore, 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.H2022H3478H8085H1697H136H3069H559H136H3069H2022H1389H650H1516H8074H2723H5892H5800H957H3933H7611H1471H54395This 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.H559H136H3069H784H7068H1696H7611H1471H123H5414H776H4181H8057H3824H7589H5315H4054H9576“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.H5012H127H3478H559H2022H1389H650H1516H559H136H3069H1696H7068H2534H5375H3639H14717Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I have taken a solemn oath that those nations will soon have their own shame to endure.H559H136H3069H5375H3027H1471H5439H5375H36398“But the mountains of Israel will produce heavy crops of fruit for my people—for they will be coming home again soon!H2022H3478H5414H6057H5375H6529H5971H3478H7126H9359See, I care about you, and I will pay attention to you. Your ground will be plowed and your crops planted.H6437H5647H223210I will greatly increase the population of Israel, and the ruined cities will be rebuilt and filled with people.H7235H120H1004H3478H5892H3427H2723H112911I 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.H7235H120H929H7235H6509H3427H6927H2895H7221H3045H306812I 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.H120H3212H5971H3478H3423H5159H3254H792113“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!’H559H136H3069H559H398H120H7921H147114But you will never again devour your people or rob them of their children, says the Sovereign Lord.H398H120H7921H3782H1471H5002H136H306915I 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.”H8085H3639H1471H5375H2781H5971H1471H3782H5002H136H306916Then this further message came to me from the Lord:H1697H3068H55917“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.H1121H120H1004H3478H3427H127H2930H1870H5949H1870H6440H2932H507918They polluted the land with murder and the worship of idols, so I poured out my fury on them.H8210H2534H1818H8210H776H1544H293019I scattered them to many lands to punish them for the evil way they had lived.H6327H1471H2219H776H1870H5949H819920But 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!’H935H1471H935H2490H6944H8034H559H5971H3068H3318H77621Then I was concerned for my holy name, on which my people brought shame among the nations.H2550H6944H8034H1004H3478H2490H1471H93522“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.H559H1004H3478H559H136H3069H6213H1004H3478H6944H8034H2490H1471H93523I 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.H6942H1419H8034H2490H1471H2490H8432H1471H3045H3068H5002H136H3069H6942H586924For I will gather you up from all the nations and bring you home again to your land.H3947H4480H1471H6908H776H935H12725“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.H2236H2889H4325H2891H2932H1544H289126And 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.H2319H3820H5414H2319H7307H5414H7130H5493H68H3820H1320H5414H3820H132027And I will put my Spirit in you so that you will follow my decrees and be careful to obey my regulations.H5414H7307H7130H6213H3212H2706H8104H4941H621328“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.H3427H776H5414H1H5971H43029I 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.H3467H2932H7121H1715H7235H5414H745830I 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.H7235H6529H6086H8570H7704H3947H2781H7458H147131Then you will remember your past sins and despise yourselves for all the detestable things you did.H2142H7451H1870H4611H2896H6962H6440H5771H844132But 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!H6213H5002H136H3069H3045H954H3637H1870H1004H347833“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.H559H136H3069H3117H2891H5771H3427H5892H2723H112934The fields that used to lie empty and desolate in plain view of everyone will again be farmed.H8074H776H5647H8077H5869H567435And 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!’H559H1977H776H8074H1588H5731H2720H8074H2040H5892H1219H342736Then 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.H1471H7604H5439H3045H3068H1129H2040H5193H8074H3068H1696H621337“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am ready to hear Israel’s prayers and to increase their numbers like a flock.H559H136H3069H1875H1004H3478H6213H7235H120H662938They 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.”H6944H6629H6629H3389H4150H2720H5892H4392H6629H120H3045H3068
Ezekiel 37
37The Lord took hold of me, and I was carried away by the Spirit of the Lord to a valley filled with bones.H3027H3068H3318H7307H3068H5117H8432H1237H4392H61062He led me all around among the bones that covered the valley floor. They were scattered everywhere across the ground and were completely dried out.H5674H5439H3966H7227H6440H1237H3966H30023Then he asked me, “Son of man, can these bones become living people again?” “O Sovereign Lord,” I replied, “you alone know the answer to that.”H559H1121H120H6106H2421H559H136H3069H30454Then he said to me, “Speak a prophetic message to these bones and say, ‘Dry bones, listen to the word of the Lord!H559H5012H6106H559H3002H6106H8085H1697H30685This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Look! I am going to put breath into you and make you live again!H559H136H3069H6106H7307H935H24216I will put flesh and muscles on you and cover you with skin. I will put breath into you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”H5414H1517H5927H1320H7159H5785H5414H7307H2421H3045H30687So I spoke this message, just as he told me. Suddenly as I spoke, there was a rattling noise all across the valley. The bones of each body came together and attached themselves as complete skeletons.H5012H6680H5012H6963H7494H6106H7126H6106H61068Then as I watched, muscles and flesh formed over the bones. Then skin formed to cover their bodies, but they still had no breath in them.H7200H1517H1320H5927H5785H7159H4605H73079Then he said to me, “Speak a prophetic message to the winds, son of man. Speak a prophetic message and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come, O breath, from the four winds! Breathe into these dead bodies so they may live again.’”H559H5012H7307H5012H1121H120H559H7307H559H136H3069H935H702H7307H7307H5301H2026H242110So I spoke the message as he commanded me, and breath came into their bodies. They all came to life and stood up on their feet—a great army.H5012H6680H7307H935H2421H5975H7272H3966H3966H1419H242811Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones represent the people of Israel. They are saying, ‘We have become old, dry bones—all hope is gone. Our nation is finished.’H559H1121H120H6106H1004H3478H559H6106H3001H8615H6H150412Therefore, prophesy to them and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: O my people, I will open your graves of exile and cause you to rise again. Then I will bring you back to the land of Israel.H5012H559H559H136H3069H5971H6605H6913H5927H6913H935H127H347813When this happens, O my people, you will know that I am the Lord.H3045H3068H6605H6913H5971H5927H691314I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live again and return home to your own land. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken, and I have done what I said. Yes, the Lord has spoken!’”H5414H7307H2421H3240H127H3045H3068H1696H6213H5002H306815Again a message came to me from the Lord:H1697H3068H55916“Son of man, take a piece of wood and carve on it these words: ‘This represents Judah and its allied tribes.’ Then take another piece and carve these words on it: ‘This represents Ephraim and the northern tribes of Israel.’H1121H120H3947H259H6086H3789H3063H1121H3478H2270H3947H259H6086H3789H3130H6086H669H1004H3478H227017Now hold them together in your hand as if they were one piece of wood.H7126H259H259H259H6086H259H302718When your people ask you what your actions mean,H1121H5971H559H559H504619say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will take Ephraim and the northern tribes and join them to Judah. I will make them one piece of wood in my hand.’H1696H559H136H3069H3947H6086H3130H3027H669H7626H3478H2270H5414H6086H3063H6213H259H6086H259H302720“Then hold out the pieces of wood you have inscribed, so the people can see them.H6086H3789H3027H586921And give them this message from the Sovereign Lord: I will gather the people of Israel from among the nations. I will bring them home to their own land from the places where they have been scattered.H1696H559H136H3069H3947H1121H3478H996H1471H1980H6908H5439H935H12722I will unify them into one nation on the mountains of Israel. One king will rule them all; no longer will they be divided into two nations or into two kingdoms.H6213H259H1471H776H2022H3478H259H4428H4428H5750H8147H1471H2673H8147H446723They will never again pollute themselves with their idols and vile images and rebellion, for I will save them from their sinful backsliding. I will cleanse them. Then they will truly be my people, and I will be their God.H2930H1544H8251H6588H3467H4186H2398H2891H5971H43024“My servant David will be their king, and they will have only one shepherd. They will obey my regulations and be careful to keep my decrees.H1732H5650H4428H259H7462H3212H4941H8104H2708H621325They will live in the land I gave my servant Jacob, the land where their ancestors lived. They and their children and their grandchildren after them will live there forever, generation after generation. And my servant David will be their prince forever.H3427H776H5414H3290H5650H1H3427H3427H1121H1121H1121H5769H5650H1732H5387H5704H576926And I will make a covenant of peace with them, an everlasting covenant. I will give them their land and increase their numbers, and I will put my Temple among them forever.H3772H1285H7965H5769H1285H5414H7235H5414H4720H8432H576927I will make my home among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.H4908H430H597128And when my Temple is among them forever, the nations will know that I am the Lord, who makes Israel holy.”H1471H3045H3068H6942H3478H4720H8432H5769
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