1And thou son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say: Ye mountains of Israel, hear 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 saith the Lord God: Because the enemy hath said to you: Aha, the everlasting heights are given to us for an inheritance.

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

3Therefore prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Because you have been desolate, and trodden under foot on every side, and made an inheritance to the rest of the nations, and are become the subject of the talk, and the reproach of the people:

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

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 brooks, and to the valleys, and to desolate places, and ruinous walls, and to the cities that are forsaken, that are spoiled, and derided by the rest of the nations round about.

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

5Therefore thus saith the Lord God: In the fire of my zeal I have spoken of the rest of the nations, and of all Edom, who have taken my land to themselves, for an inheritance with joy, and with all the heart, and with the mind: and have cast it out to lay it waste.

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

6Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains, and to the hills, to the ridges, and to the valleys: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I have spoken in my zeal, and in my indignation, because you have borne 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 saith the Lord God: I have lifted up my hand, that the Gentiles who are round about you, shall 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, shoot ye forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel: for they are at hand to come.

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

9For I, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be ploughed and sown.

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

10And I will multiply men upon you, and all the house of Israel: and the cities ball be inhabited, and the ruinous places shall be repaired.

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

11And I will make you abound with men and with beasts: and they shall be multiplied, and increased: and I will settle you as from the beginning, and will give you greater gifts, than you had from the beginning: 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 bring men upon you, my people Israel, and they shall possess thee for their inheritance: and thou shalt be their inheritance, and shalt no more henceforth be without them.

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

13Thus saith the Lord God: Because thy say of you: Thou art a devourer of men, and one that suffocatest thy nation:

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Numbers 13:32, Numbers 13:32

14Therefore thou shalt devour men no more nor destroy thy nation any more, saith 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 cause men to hear in thee the shame of the nations any more, nor shalt thou bear the reproach of the people, nor lose thy nation any more, saith 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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17Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it with their ways, and with their doings: their way was before me 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 I poured out my indignation upon them for the blood which they had shed upon the land, and with their idols they defiled it.

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

19And I scattered them among the nations, and they are dispersed through the countries: I have judged them according to their ways, and their devices.

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

20And when they entered among the nations whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when it was said of them: This is the people of the Lord, and they are come forth out of his land.

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

21And I have regarded my own holy name, which the house of Israel hath profaned among the nations to which they went in.

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

22Therefore thou shalt say to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God: It is not for your sake that I will do this, O house of Israel, but for my holy name's sake, which you have profaned among the nations whither you went.

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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 profaned among the Gentiles, which you have profaned in the midst of them: that the Gentiles may know that I am the Lord, saith the Lord of hosts, when I shall be 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

24For I will take you from among the Gentiles, and will gather you together out of all the countries, and will bring 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 upon you clean water, and you shall be cleansed from all your filthiness, 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 you a new heart, and put a new spirit within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and will give 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 put my spirit in the midst of you: and I will cause you to walk in my commandments, and to keep my judgments, and do them.

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

28And you shall dwell in the land which 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 uncleannesses: and I will call for corn, and will multiply it, and will lay no 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 increase of the field, that you bear no more the reproach 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 wicked ways, and your doings that were not good: and your iniquities, and your wicked deeds shall displease you.

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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 do this, saith the Lord God, be it known to you: be confounded, and ashamed at 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 saith the Lord God: In the day that I shall cleanse you from all your iniquities, and shall cause the cities to be inhabited, and shall repair the ruinous places,

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

34And the desolate land shall be tilled, which before was waste in the sight of all that passed by,

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

35They shall say: This land that was untilled is become as a garden of pleasure: and the cities that were abandoned, and desolate, and destroyed, are peopled and fenced.

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

36And the nations, that shall be left round about you, shall know that I the Lord have built up what was destroyed, and planted what was desolate, that I the Lord have spoken and done it.

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

37Thus saith the Lord God: Moreover in this shall the house of Israel find me, that I will do it for them: I will multiply them as a flock of men,

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

38As a holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts: so shall the waste cities be full of 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