Thomson(i)
1 And thou son of man, prophesy concerning the mountains of Israel, and say to the mountains of Israel, Hear a word of the Lord;
2 Thus saith the Lord, Lord; For as much as against you the enemy said, "Aha! these everlasting deserts are become our possession;"
3 therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord, Lord, For as much as you have been despised and hated by them around you, by reason of your being a possession for the relics of nations; and you are become a byword and scoff to the nations:
4 therefore, mountains of Israel, hear a word of the Lord, Thus saith the Lord, to the mountains and the hills, and to the brooks and vallies, even to the waste and desolate places, and to the cities which have been utterly forsaken; as they are become a prey and a haunt for the remnants of nations around;
5 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Lord, In the fire of my wrath I have spoken against these remnants of nations and against all Idumea: Because they have with joy distributed this land of mine among themselves for a possession, undervaluing lives that you might be a waste for prey;
6 therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and hills and to the vales and forests,
7 Thus saith the Lord, Behold in my zeal and my wrath I have spoken; for as much as you have borne the reproach of the nations; therefore I will lift up my hand against the nations around you; they shall bear their own dishonour:
8 but your grapes and your fruits, mountains of Israel, shall be eaten by my people. Because they have confident hopes of coming;
9 because, lo! I am over you, and I will watch over you; therefore you shall be cultivated and sown:
10 and upon you I will multiply men even the whole house of Israel; and the cities shall be rebuilt and the wastes inhabited:
11 and upon you I will multiply men and cattle, and cause you to be inhabited as in your former state. And I will deal kindly with you as I did in times of old; and you shall know that I am the Lord.
12 And I will cause men, my people Israel, to increase upon you; and they shall inherit you, and you shall be a possession for them, and shall no more be without a succession of children from them.
13 Thus saith the Lord, Lord, For as much as they said of thee, "Thou art a devourer of men, and art bereft of thy nation,
14 "Therefore thou shalt no more devour men nor make thy nation childless, saith the Lord, Lord.
15 And the revile of nations shall no more be heard against you, nor shall you any more bear the reproaches of peoples, saith the Lord, Lord.
16 Again a word of the Lord came to me, saying,
17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their land, they polluted it with their way and with their idols and with their impurities; and their way was in my view as the uncleanness of a woman in a state of separation;
18 therefore I poured out my wrath against them, and scattered them through the nations,
19 and dispersed them through the countries: according to their way and according to their sin I judged them.
20 And when they went to the nations, wherever they went they profaned my holy name, by saying that they were the people of the Lord and had come from his land;
21 and that I had spared them for the sake of that holy name of mine, which they, the house of Israel, profaned among the nations wherever they went.
22 Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord, I deal thus with you, not for your sakes, house of Israel, but only for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations wherever you went.
23 For I will hallow my great name which hath been profaned, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, when I am hallowed by you before their eyes.
24 When I take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and bring you into your own land;
25 then I will sprinkle upon you pure water, and you shall be cleansed from all your impurities and from all your idols; and when I have cleansed you,
26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you: I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh:
27 And I will put my spirit in you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and to keep my judgments and practise them.
28 And you shall dwell in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people and I will be your God.
29 And I will save you from all your impurities. And I will call for corn and multiply it: and no more send famine among you.
30 And I will multiply the fruit of the trees and the products of the field; that you may no more bear the reproach of famine among the nations.
31 Then will you call to remembrance your evil ways, and your devices which were not good; and in their sight be grieved for your iniquities and your abominations.
32 It is not for your sakes that I do this, saith the Lord, Lord. This you must needs know. Blush and be ashamed for your ways, O house of Israel.
33 Thus saith Adonai the Lord, when I have cleansed you from all your iniquities, I will cause your cities to be rebuilded and the desolate places shall be inhabited,
34 and the land which was a waste shall be tilled. For as much as it was a waste in the sight of all who passed by;
35 therefore they will say, "This land which was a waste is become like a paradise, and the waste, ruined and demolished cities are become places of strength;"
36 and the nations which may be left around you shall know, that I the Lord have rebuilt the ruined cities, and planted the grounds which were a waste. I the Lord have spoken and I will perform.
37 Thus saith Adonai the Lord, Still that they may do this, the house of Israel must seek me;