1 And thou, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say to the mountains of Israel, Hear ye the word of the Lord: 2 Thus saith the Lord God; Because the enemy has said against you, Aha, the old waste places are become a possession for us: 3 therefore prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Because ye have been dishonoured, and hated by those round about you, that ye might be a possession to the remainder of the nations, and ye became a by-word, and a reproach to the nations: 4 therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord; Thus saith 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 saith the Lord; Verily in the fire of my wrath have I spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Idumea, because they have appropriated my land to themselves for a possession with joy, disregarding the lives [of the 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 saith the Lord; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because ye 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 toward you, and I will have respect to you, and ye shall be tilled and sown: 10 and I will multiply men upon you, [even] all the house of Israel to the end: 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 will treat you well, as in your former [times]: and ye 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 ye shall be to them for a possession; and ye shall no more be bereaved of them. 13 Thus saith the Lord God: Because they said to thee, Thou [land] devourest men, and hast been bereaved of thy nation; 14 therefore thou shalt no more devour men, and thou shalt no more bereave thy nation, saith the Lord God. 15 And there shall no more be heard against you the reproach of the nations, and ye shall no more bear the revilings of the peoples, saith the Lord God. 16 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 17 Son of man, the house of Israel dwelt upon their land, and defiled it by their way, and with their idols, and with their uncleannesses; and their way was before me like the uncleanness of a removed woman. 18 So I poured out my wrath upon them: 19 and I dispersed them among the nations, and utterly scattered them through the countries: I judged them according to their way and according to their sin. 20 And they went in among the nations, among which they went, and they profaned my holy name, while it was said of them, These are the people of the Lord, and they came forth out of his land. 21 But I spared them for the sake of my holy name, which the house of Israel profaned among the nations, among whom they went. 22 Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord; I do not this, O house of Israel, for your sakes, but because of my holy name, which ye have profaned among the nations, among whom ye went. 23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the nations, which ye profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, when I am sanctified among you before their eyes. 24 And I will take you out from the nations, and will gather you out of all the lands, and will bring you into your own land: 25 and I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be purged from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, and I will cleanse you. 26 And I will give you a new heart, and will put a new spirit in you: and I will take away the heart of stone out of your flesh, and will give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit in you, and will cause you to walk in mine ordinances, and to keep my judgments, and do [them]. 28 And ye shall dwell upon the land which I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be to me a people, and I will be to you a God. 29 And I will save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and multiply it, and will not bring famine upon you. 30 And I will multiply the fruit of the trees, and the produce of the field, that ye may not bear the reproach of famine among the nations. 31 And ye shall remember your evil ways, and your practices that were not good, and ye shall be hateful in your own sight for your transgressions and for your abominations. 32 Not for your sakes do I [this], saith the Lord God, [as] it is known to you: be ye ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel. 33 Thus saith the Lord God; In the day wherein I shall cleanse you from all your iniquities I will also cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste [places] shall be built upon: 34 and the desolate land shall be cultivated, whereas it was desolate in the eyes of every one that passed by. 35 And they shall say, That desolate land is become like a garden of delight; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are inhabited. 36 And the nations, as many as shall have been left round about you, shall know that I the Lord have built the ruined [cities] and planted the waste [lands]: I the Lord have spoken, and will do [it]. 37 Thus saith the Lord God; Yet [for] this will I be sought by the house of Israel, to establish them; I will multiply them [even] men as sheep; 38 as holy sheep, as the sheep of Jerusalem in her feasts; thus shall the desert cities be full of flocks of men: and they shall know that I [am] the Lord.
Ezekiel · Brenton's English Septuagint
Ezekiel 36 Brenton's English Septuagint
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- Square brackets mark words Brenton supplied for English sense.
- Old Testament only (no New Testament). First printed 1844; the 1851 edition added the deuterocanonical books.
Cross references (37)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Ezekiel 6:2–3; Jeremiah 22:29; Ezekiel 37:22; Ezekiel 36:4; Ezekiel 36:8
- 2 Deuteronomy 32:13; Ezekiel 25:3; Ezekiel 35:10; Habakkuk 3:19; Psalm 78:69
- 3 Psalm 44:13–14; Lamentations 2:15–16; Jeremiah 18:16; Jeremiah 41:1–18; Ezekiel 13:10
- 4 Deuteronomy 11:11; Ezekiel 34:28; Ezekiel 36:1; Psalm 79:4; Ezekiel 36:6
- 5 Micah 7:8; Ezekiel 36:3; Psalm 83:4–12; Psalm 137:7; Zechariah 1:15
- 6 Psalm 123:3–4; Ezekiel 34:29; Psalm 74:10; Psalm 74:23; Psalm 74:18
- 7 Ezekiel 20:5; Amos 1:1–15; Ezekiel 25:1–17; Jeremiah 25:15–29; Jeremiah 47:1–7
- 8 Isaiah 27:6; Hebrews 10:37; Ezekiel 34:26–29; Isaiah 4:2; Hosea 2:21–23
- 9 Psalm 46:11; Ezekiel 36:34; Hosea 2:21–23; Romans 8:31; Zechariah 8:12
- 10 Ezekiel 36:33; Jeremiah 30:19; Jeremiah 33:12; Isaiah 27:6; Ezekiel 36:37
- 11 Jeremiah 33:12; Jeremiah 23:5–8; Micah 7:14; Ezekiel 37:13; Jeremiah 31:27
- 12 Jeremiah 15:7; Ezekiel 47:14; Obadiah 17–21; Numbers 13:32; Ezekiel 36:13
- 13 Numbers 13:32
- 14 Ezekiel 37:25–28; Isaiah 60:21; Amos 9:15
- 15 Psalm 89:50; Ezekiel 34:29; Isaiah 54:4; Isaiah 60:14; Ezekiel 36:6
- 17 Jeremiah 2:7; Numbers 35:33–34; Micah 2:10; Jeremiah 16:18; Leviticus 15:19–33
- 18 Ezekiel 7:8; 2 Chronicles 34:21; Lamentations 4:11; Lamentations 2:4; Nahum 1:6
- 19 Deuteronomy 28:64; Ezekiel 39:24; Romans 2:6; Ezekiel 18:30; Ezekiel 5:12
- 20 Isaiah 52:5; Romans 2:24; Jeremiah 33:24; Daniel 3:15; Exodus 32:11–13
- 21 Isaiah 48:9; Psalm 74:18; Ezekiel 20:9; Ezekiel 20:22; Isaiah 37:35
- 22 Psalm 106:8; Ezekiel 36:32; Psalm 115:1–2; Deuteronomy 7:7–8; Deuteronomy 9:5–7
- 23 Ezekiel 20:41; Ezekiel 39:7; 1 Peter 2:9; Psalm 46:10; Isaiah 5:16
- 24 Ezekiel 37:21; Ezekiel 34:13; Amos 9:14–15; Psalm 107:2–3; Jeremiah 30:3
- 25 Hebrews 10:22; John 3:5; Jeremiah 33:8; 1 John 1:7; Titus 3:5–6
- 26 Ezekiel 11:19–20; Psalm 51:10; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Deuteronomy 30:6; John 3:3–5
- 27 Titus 3:3–6; Hebrews 13:21; Ezekiel 39:29; 1 Corinthians 3:16; Jeremiah 31:33
- 28 Jeremiah 31:33; Jeremiah 32:38; Ezekiel 37:27; Ezekiel 11:20; Ezekiel 37:23
- 29 Matthew 1:21; Hosea 2:21–23; John 1:7–9; Romans 11:26; Hosea 14:4
- 30 Ezekiel 34:27; Joel 2:26; Deuteronomy 29:23–28; Leviticus 26:4; Joel 2:17
- 31 Ezekiel 6:9; Nehemiah 9:26–35; Ezekiel 20:43; Job 42:6; Isaiah 6:5
- 32 Deuteronomy 9:5; Ezekiel 36:22; Titus 3:3–6; 2 Timothy 1:9; Daniel 9:18–19
- 33 Isaiah 58:12; Ezekiel 36:10; Jeremiah 33:10; Zechariah 8:7–8; Jeremiah 32:43
- 34 Ezekiel 6:14; Jeremiah 25:9–11; Deuteronomy 29:23–28; 2 Chronicles 36:21
- 35 Isaiah 51:3; Joel 2:3; Jeremiah 33:9; Psalm 58:11; Psalm 64:9
- 36 Matthew 24:35; Ezekiel 17:24; Ezekiel 37:14; Numbers 23:19; Hosea 14:4–9
- 37 Hebrews 10:21–22; 1 John 5:14; Ezekiel 14:3; Zechariah 10:6; Zechariah 10:9
- 38 Acts 2:5–11; John 10:16; 1 Kings 8:63; 2 Chronicles 35:7–19; 2 Chronicles 7:8
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