Ezekiel 36:1-15

CAB(i) 1 And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say to the mountains of Israel, Hear the word of the Lord: 2 Thus says the Lord God: Because the enemy has said against you, Aha, the old waste places have become a possession for us; 3 therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God: Because you have been dishonored, and hated by those round about you, that you might be a possession to the remainder of the nations, and you became a byword, and a reproach to the nations. 4 Therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord: Thus says the Lord to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the streams, and to the valleys, and to the places that have been made desolate and destroyed, and to the cities that have been deserted, and have become a spoil and a trampling to the nations that were left round about; 5 therefore, thus says the Lord: Verily in the fire of My wrath have I spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, because they have appropriated My land to themselves for a possession with joy, disregarding the lives of its inhabitants, to destroy it by plunder. 6 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the valleys, and to the forests, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and in My wrath, because you have borne the reproaches of the heathen; 7 therefore I will lift up My hand against the nations that are round about you; they shall bear their reproach. 8 But your grapes and your fruits, O mountains of Israel, shall My people eat; for they are hoping to come. 9 For behold, I am for you, and I will have respect to you, and you shall be tilled and sown; 10 and I will multiply men upon you, even all the house of Israel to the last; and the cities shall be inhabited, and the desolate land shall be built upon. 11 And I will multiply men and cattle upon you, and I will cause you to dwell as at the beginning, and I will treat you well, as in your former times; and you shall know that I am the Lord. 12 And I will increase men upon you, even My people Israel; and they shall inherit you, and you shall be to them for a possession; and you shall no more be bereaved of them. 13 Thus says the Lord God: Because they said to you, You devour men, and have been bereaved of your nation; 14 therefore you shall no more devour men, and you shall no more bereave your nation, says the Lord God. 15 And there shall no more be heard against you the reproach of the nations, and you shall no more bear the revilings of the peoples, says the Lord God.