1“But as for you, son of man, prophesy over the mountains of Israel, and you shall say: O mountains of Israel, listen to the word of the Lord.

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Ezekiel 36:4, Jeremiah 22:29, Ezekiel 34:14, Ezekiel 20:47, Ezekiel 37:22

2Thus says the Lord God: Because the enemy has said about you: ‘It is well! The everlasting heights have been given to us as an inheritance!’

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Deuteronomy 32:13, Deuteronomy 32:13, Ezekiel 35:10, Ezekiel 25:3, Ezekiel 35:10

3because of this, prophesy and say: Thus says the Lord God: Because you have been made desolate, and you have been trampled on every side, and you have been made into an inheritance for the remainder of the nations, and because you rose up, over the tip of the tongue and over the shame of the people,

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Psalms 44:13, Psalms 44:14, Psalms 44:13, Psalms 44:14, Lamentations 2:15

4because of this, O mountains of Israel, listen to the word of the Lord God. Thus says the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the torrents, and to the valleys, and to the deserts, and to the ruins, and to the forsaken cities, which have been depopulated and ridiculed by the remainder of the nations all around:

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Deuteronomy 11:11, Ezekiel 34:28, Deuteronomy 11:11, Ezekiel 34:28, Ezekiel 36:1

5Because of this, thus says the Lord God: In the fire of my zeal, I have spoken about the remainder of the nations, and about all of Idumea, who have given my land to themselves, joyfully, as an inheritance, and with all the heart and mind, and who have cast it out, so that they may lay waste to it.

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Micah 7:8, Ezekiel 36:3, Micah 7:8, Ezekiel 36:3, Deuteronomy 4:24

6Therefore, prophesy over the soil of Israel, and you shall say to the mountains, and to the hills, to the ridges, and to the valleys: Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I have spoken in my zeal and in my fury, because you have endured the shame of the Gentiles.

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Psalms 123:3, Psalms 123:4, Ezekiel 34:29, Psalms 123:3, Psalms 123:4

7Therefore, thus says the Lord God: I have lifted up my hand, so that the Gentiles, who are all around you, will themselves bear their shame.

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Ezekiel 20:5, Ezekiel 20:5, Jeremiah 25:9, Zephaniah 2:1, Zephaniah 2:15

8But as for you, O mountains of Israel, spring forth your branches, and bear your fruit, to my people Israel. For they are close to their advent.

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Isaiah 27:6, Isaiah 27:6, Ezekiel 34:26, Ezekiel 34:29, Ezekiel 34:26

9For behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you will be plowed, and you will receive seed.

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Psalms 46:11, Psalms 46:11, Ezekiel 36:34, Hosea 2:21, Hosea 2:23

10And I will multiply men among you and among all the house of Israel. And the cities shall be inhabited, and the ruinous places shall be restored.

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Ezekiel 36:33, Ezekiel 36:33, Jeremiah 33:12, Jeremiah 31:27, Jeremiah 31:28

11And I will fill you again with men and with cattle. And they will be multiplied, and they will increase. And I will cause you to live as from the beginning, and I will give you even greater gifts than those you had from the start. And you shall know that I am the Lord.

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Jeremiah 23:5, Jeremiah 23:8, Jeremiah 33:12, Jeremiah 23:5, Jeremiah 23:8

12And I will lead men over you, over my people Israel, and they will possess you as an inheritance. And you shall be to them as an inheritance. And you shall no longer be permitted to be without them.

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Jeremiah 15:7, Jeremiah 15:7, Jeremiah 32:15, Ezekiel 47:14, Ezekiel 36:13

13Thus says the Lord God: Because they are saying about you, ‘You are a woman who devours men, and you are strangling your own nation,’

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Numbers 13:32, Numbers 13:32

14because of this, you shall no longer consume men, and you shall no longer harm your own nation, says the Lord God.

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Amos 9:15, Ezekiel 37:25, Ezekiel 37:28, Isaiah 60:21, Amos 9:15

15Neither will I permit men to discover in you the shame of the Gentiles any more. And you shall never again bear the reproach of the peoples. And you shall not send your people away any more, says the Lord God.”

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Psalms 89:50, Ezekiel 34:29, Psalms 89:50, Ezekiel 34:29, Isaiah 54:4

16And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

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17“Son of man, the house of Israel lived on their own soil, and they defiled it with their ways and with their intentions. Their way, in my sight, became like the uncleanness of a menstruous woman.

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Jeremiah 2:7, Jeremiah 2:7, Numbers 35:33, Numbers 35:34, Leviticus 15:19

18And so I poured out my indignation upon them, because of the blood which they shed upon the land, and because they defiled it with their idols.

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Ezekiel 7:8, 2 Chronicles 34:21, Ezekiel 7:8, 2 Chronicles 34:21, Lamentations 2:4

19And I dispersed them among the Gentiles, and they have been scattered among the lands. I have judged them according to their ways and their plans.

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Deuteronomy 28:64, Ezekiel 39:24, Deuteronomy 28:64, Ezekiel 39:24, Ezekiel 5:12

20And when they walked among the Gentiles, to whom they had entered, they defiled my holy name, though it was being said about them: ‘This is the people of the Lord,’ and ‘They went forth from his land.’

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Romans 2:24, Isaiah 52:5, Romans 2:24, Isaiah 52:5, Jeremiah 33:24

21But I have spared my holy name, which the house of Israel has defiled among the Gentiles, to whom they entered.

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Isaiah 48:9, Psalms 74:18, Isaiah 48:9, Psalms 74:18, Ezekiel 20:9

22For this reason, you shall say to the house of Israel: Thus says the Lord God: I will act, not for your sake, O house of Israel, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have defiled among the Gentiles, to whom you entered.

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Psalms 106:8, Psalms 106:8, Ezekiel 36:32, Ezekiel 36:32, Psalms 115:1

23And I will sanctify my great name, which was defiled among the Gentiles, which you have defiled in their midst. So may the Gentiles know that I am the Lord, says the Lord of hosts, when I will have been sanctified in you, before their eyes.

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Ezekiel 20:41, Ezekiel 20:41, Ezekiel 39:7, Isaiah 5:16, Ezekiel 39:7

24Certainly, I will take you away from the Gentiles, and I will gather you together from all the lands, and I will lead you into your own land.

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Ezekiel 37:21, Ezekiel 37:21, Ezekiel 34:13, Ezekiel 34:13, Amos 9:14

25And I will pour clean water over you, and you shall be cleansed from all your filth, and I will cleanse you from all your idols.

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Hebrews 10:22, Hebrews 10:22, John 3:5, John 3:5, Jeremiah 33:8

26And I will give to you a new heart, and I will place in you a new spirit. And I will take away the heart of stone from your body, and I will give to you a heart of flesh.

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Ezekiel 11:19, Ezekiel 11:20, Ezekiel 11:19, Ezekiel 11:20, Psalms 51:10

27And I will place my Spirit in your midst. And I will act so that you may walk in my precepts and keep my judgments, and so that you may fulfill them.

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Titus 3:3, Titus 3:6, Hebrews 13:21, Titus 3:3, Titus 3:6

28And you shall live in the land that I gave to your fathers. And you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

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Jeremiah 31:33, Ezekiel 37:27, Jeremiah 32:38, Jeremiah 31:33, Ezekiel 37:27

29And I will save you from all your filth. And I will call for grain, and I will multiply it, and I will not impose a famine upon you.

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John 1:7, John 1:9, Hosea 2:21, Hosea 2:23, Matthew 1:21

30And I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the produce of the field, so that you may no longer bear the disgrace of famine among the nations.

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Ezekiel 34:27, Ezekiel 34:27, Joel 2:26, Joel 2:26, Deuteronomy 29:23

31And you shall remember your very wicked ways and your intentions, which were not good. And you will be displeased by your own iniquities and your own crimes.

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Ezekiel 20:43, Ezekiel 6:9, Ezekiel 20:43, Ezekiel 6:9, Isaiah 6:5

32It is not for your sakes that I will act, says the Lord God; let this be known to you. Be confounded and ashamed over your own ways, O house of Israel.

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Deuteronomy 9:5, Ezekiel 36:22, Deuteronomy 9:5, Ezekiel 36:22, 2 Timothy 1:9

33Thus says the Lord God: In the day when I will have cleansed you from all your iniquities, and when I will have caused the cities to be inhabited, and when I will have restored the ruinous places,

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Ezekiel 36:10, Ezekiel 36:10, Isaiah 58:12, Isaiah 58:12, Jeremiah 33:10

34and when the deserted land will have been cultivated, which previously was desolate to the eyes of all who passed by,

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Ezekiel 6:14, Ezekiel 6:14, Jeremiah 25:9, Jeremiah 25:11, Jeremiah 25:9

35then they shall say: ‘This uncultivated land has become a garden of delight, and the cities, which were deserted and destitute and overturned, have been settled and fortified.’

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Isaiah 51:3, Isaiah 51:3, Joel 2:3, Jeremiah 33:9, Joel 2:3

36And the Gentiles, those who remain around you, shall know that I, the Lord, have built up what was destroyed, and have planted what was uncultivated. I, the Lord, have spoken and acted.

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Ezekiel 37:14, Matthew 24:35, Ezekiel 37:14, Matthew 24:35, Numbers 23:19

37Thus says the Lord God: Even in this time, the house of Israel shall find me, so that I may act for them. I will multiply them like a flock of men,

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Ezekiel 14:3, Hebrews 10:21, Hebrews 10:22, Ezekiel 14:3, Hebrews 10:21

38like a holy flock, like the flock of Jerusalem in her solemnities. So shall the deserted cities be filled with flocks of men. And they shall know that I am the Lord.”

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1 Kings 8:63, John 10:16, Acts 2:5, Acts 2:11, 1 Kings 8:63