1Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord :[ † ]Ezekiel 6:2-3 2Thus saith the Lord God ; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are our's in possession:[ † ]Jeremiah 33:24Ezekiel 25:3Ezekiel 26:2Deuteronomy 32:13Psalms 78:69Isaiah 58:14Habakkuk 3:19Ezekiel 35:10 3therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God ; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:[ † ]Deuteronomy 28:371 Kings 9:7Lamentations 2:15Daniel 9:16Psalms 44:13-14Jeremiah 18:16Ezekiel 35:13 4therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God ; Thus saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;[ † ]Ezekiel 34:8-28Psalms 79:4Jeremiah 48:27 5therefore thus saith the Lord God ; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.[ † ]Deuteronomy 4:24Ezekiel 38:19Ezekiel 35:10-12 6Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen:[ † ]Psalms 74:10Psalms 123:3-4Ezekiel 34:29 7therefore thus saith the Lord God ; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.[ † ]Ezekiel 20:5Jeremiah 25:9-15, 29
8But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come. 9For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown: 10and I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded:[ † ]Isaiah 58:12Isaiah 61:4Amos 9:14 11and I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the Lord .[ † ]Jeremiah 31:27Jeremiah 33:12Job 42:12Isaiah 51:3Ezekiel 35:9Ezekiel 37:6-13 12Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men .[ † ]Obadiah 17Jeremiah 15:7Ezekiel 22:12-27 13Thus saith the Lord God ; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations;[ † ]Numbers 13:32 14therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord God .
15Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord God .[ † ]Isaiah 60:14Ezekiel 34:29
16Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 17Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.[ † ]Leviticus 18:25-27, 28Jeremiah 2:7Leviticus 15:19 18Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it:[ † ]Ezekiel 16:36-38Ezekiel 23:37 19and I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.[ † ]Deuteronomy 28:64Ezekiel 5:12Ezekiel 22:15Amos 9:9Ezekiel 7:3Ezekiel 18:30Ezekiel 39:24Romans 2:6
20And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the Lord , and are gone forth out of his land.[ † ]Isaiah 52:5Ezekiel 12:16Romans 2:24 21But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.[ † ]Ezekiel 20:9-14
22Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God ; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went.[ † ]Psalms 106:8Ezekiel 20:44 23And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord , saith the Lord God , when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.[ † ]Isaiah 5:16Ezekiel 20:41Ezekiel 28:22 24For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.[ † ]Isaiah 43:5-6Ezekiel 34:13Ezekiel 37:21 25Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.[ † ]Numbers 19:17-19Psalms 51:7Isaiah 52:15Hebrews 9:13-19Hebrews 10:22Jeremiah 33:8 26A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.[ † ]Psalms 51:10Jeremiah 32:39Ezekiel 11:19John 3:3 27And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them .[ † ]Isaiah 44:3Isaiah 59:21Ezekiel 11:19Ezekiel 37:14Joel 2:28-29 28And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.[ † ]Ezekiel 28:25Ezekiel 37:25Jeremiah 30:22Ezekiel 11:20Ezekiel 37:27 29I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.[ † ]Zechariah 13:1Matthew 1:21Romans 11:26Psalms 105:16Ezekiel 34:27-29Hosea 2:21-23 30And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.[ † ]Leviticus 26:4Ezekiel 34:27 31Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.[ † ]Ezekiel 16:61-63Leviticus 26:39Ezekiel 6:9Ezekiel 20:43 32Not for your sakes do I this , saith the Lord God , be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.[ † ]Deuteronomy 9:5
33Thus saith the Lord God ; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.[ † ]Ezekiel 36:10 34And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. 35And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.[ † ]Isaiah 51:3Ezekiel 28:13Joel 2:3 36Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the Lord build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the Lord have spoken it , and I will do it .[ † ]Ezekiel 17:24Ezekiel 22:14Ezekiel 37:14Hosea 14:4-9
37Thus saith the Lord God ; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.[ † ]Ezekiel 14:3Ezekiel 20:3-31Ezekiel 36:10 38As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the Lord .