1 And thou son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say: Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord: 2 Thus saith the Lord God: Because the enemy hath said of you: Aha, the everlasting heights are given to us for an inheritance. 3 Therefore 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: 4 Therefore, 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. 5 Therefore 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. 6 Prophesy 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. 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: I have lifted up my hand, that the Gentiles who are round about you, shall themselves bear their shame. 8 But 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. 9 For lo I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be ploughed and sown. 10 And I will multiply men upon you, and all the house of Israel: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the ruinous places shall be repaired. 11 And 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. 12 And 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. 13 Thus saith the Lord God: Because they say of you: Thou art a devourer of men, and one that suffocatest thy nation: 14 Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, nor destroy thy nation any more, saith the Lord God: 15 Neither 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. 16 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 17 Son 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. 18 And I poured out my indignation upon them for the blood which they had shed upon the land, and with their idols they defiled it. 19 And I scattered them among the nations, and they are dispersed through the countries: I have judged them according to their ways, and their devices. 20 And 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. 21 And I have regarded my own holy name, which the house of Israel hath profaned among the nations to which they went in. 22 Therefore 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. 23 And 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. 24 For 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. 25 And 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. 26 And 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. 27 And 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. 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 uncleannesses: and I will call for corn, and will multiply it, and will lay no famine upon you. 30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the held, that you bear no more the reproach of famine among the nations. 31 And you shall remember your wicked ways, and your doings that were not good: and your iniquities, and your wicked deeds shall displease you. 32 It 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. 33 Thus 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, 34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, which before was waste in the sight of all that passed by, 35 They 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. 36 And 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. 37 Thus 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, 38 As a holy dock, 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.
Ezekiel · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Ezekiel 36 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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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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And those of them who declare that God would make a new covenant with men, not such as that which He made with the fathers at Mount Horeb, and would give to men a new heart and a new spirit; and again, "And remember ye not the things of old: behold, I make new things which shall now arise, and …
… for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it: and I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way, and according to their doings, I judged them." Now it is easy to understand that this applies to that house of Israel of …
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For this cause, though thou shouldest work but the eleventh hour of the day, He gives thy wages entire; and though thou afford no ground of salvation, He saith, "I do it for mine own sake, that my name be not profaned:" though thou shouldest sigh only, though thou shouldest only weep, all these things He quickly catches hold of, …
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He will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be cleansed from all your sin.
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But when the prophet begins to say, "And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord," the reader ought now carefully to observe the way in which the species is overstepped and the genus taken in.
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