A Prophecy to the Mountains of Israel
“And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say: O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD. Ezk 20:47Ezk 33:28Ezk 34:14Ezk 36:4Ezk 36:8Ezk 37:22Ezk 37:4Ezk 6:2-3 This is what the Lord GOD says: Because the enemy has said of you, ‘Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession,’ Deu 32:13Ezk 25:3Ezk 35:10Ezk 26:2Hab 3:19Isa 58:14Jer 49:1Psa 78:69 therefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up in slander by the lips of their talkers, Psa 44:13-14Jer 18:16Lam 2:15-161Ki 9:7-8Dan 9:16Deu 28:37Ezk 13:10Jer 24:9 therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. Deu 11:11Ezk 34:28Ezk 36:1Ezk 36:6Psa 79:42Ch 36:17-21Ezk 36:33-35Ezk 6:14
This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, which have become a spoil and a mockery to the rest of the nations around you. Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Surely in My burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who took My land as their own possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, so that its pastureland became plunder. Ezk 36:3Mic 7:8Deu 4:24Ezk 38:19Jer 25:15-29Jer 25:9Psa 137:7Psa 83:4-12
Therefore, prophesy concerning the land of Israel and tell the mountains and hills, the ravines and valleys, that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I have spoken in My burning zeal because you have endured the reproach of the nations. Ezk 34:29Psa 123:3-4Psa 74:10Psa 74:23Ezk 36:15Ezk 36:4-5Psa 74:18
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I have sworn with an uplifted hand that surely the nations around you will endure reproach of their own. Ezk 20:5Amo 1:1-15Deu 32:40Ezk 20:15Ezk 25:1-17Jer 25:15-29Jer 25:9Jer 47:1-7 But you, O mountains of Israel, will produce branches and bear fruit for My people Israel, for they will soon come home. Isa 27:6Ezk 34:26-29Heb 10:37Amo 9:13-15Ezk 12:25Ezk 17:23Hos 2:21-23Isa 30:23
For behold, I am on your side; I will turn toward you, and you will be tilled and sown. Psa 46:11Ezk 36:34Hos 2:21-23Rom 8:31Zec 8:12Hag 2:19Jol 3:18Mal 3:10-11 I will multiply the people upon you—the house of Israel in its entirety. The cities will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt. Ezk 36:33Jer 30:19Jer 33:12Ezk 36:37Isa 27:6Jer 31:27-28Amo 9:14Isa 41:17-23 I will fill you with people and animals, and they will multiply and be fruitful. I will make you as inhabited as you once were, and I will make you prosper more than before. Then you will know that I am the LORD. Jer 33:12Jer 23:5-8Mic 7:14Ezk 37:13Jer 31:27Amo 9:15Ezk 16:55Hos 2:20
Yes, I will cause My people Israel to walk upon you; they will possess you, and you will be their inheritance, and you will no longer deprive them of their children. Jer 15:7Ezk 36:13Ezk 47:14Jer 32:44Num 13:32Oba 1:17-21Jer 32:15
For this is what the Lord GOD says: Because people say to you, ‘You devour men and deprive your nation of its children,’ Num 13:32 therefore you will no longer devour men or deprive your nation of its children, declares the Lord GOD. Amo 9:15Ezk 37:25-28Isa 60:21 I will no longer allow the taunts of the nations to be heard against you, and you will no longer endure the reproach of the peoples or cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord GOD.” Ezk 34:29Psa 89:50Ezk 36:6Isa 54:4Isa 60:14Mic 7:8-10Zep 2:8Zep 3:19-20
A New Heart and a New Spirit
(Romans 8:9–11; Galatians 5:16–26)
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Son of man, when the people of Israel lived in their land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds. Their behavior before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman’s impurity. Jer 2:7Mic 2:10Num 35:33-34Isa 24:5Jer 16:18Lev 15:19-33Isa 64:6Jer 3:1-2 So I poured out My wrath upon them because of the blood they had shed on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols. 2Ch 34:21Ezk 7:8Lam 2:4Lam 4:112Ch 34:26Ezk 14:19Ezk 16:36-38Ezk 21:31
I dispersed them among the nations, and they were scattered throughout the lands. I judged them according to their ways and deeds. Deu 28:64Ezk 39:24Amo 9:9Ezk 18:30Ezk 22:15Ezk 5:12Rom 2:6Ezk 22:31 And wherever they went among the nations, they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, ‘These are the people of the LORD, yet they had to leave His land.’ Isa 52:5Rom 2:24Jer 33:24Dan 3:15Exo 32:11-132Ki 18:302Ki 18:352Ki 19:10-12 But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they had gone. Isa 48:9Psa 74:18Ezk 20:9Deu 32:26-27Ezk 20:14Ezk 20:22Isa 37:35
Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: It is not for your sake that I will act, O house of Israel, but for My holy name, which you profaned among the nations to which you went. Psa 106:8Ezk 36:32Psa 115:1-2Deu 7:7-8Deu 9:5-7 I will show the holiness of My great name, which has been profaned among the nations—the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when I show My holiness in you before their eyes. Ezk 20:411Pe 2:9Ezk 39:7Isa 5:16Psa 46:10Ezk 39:28Psa 126:1-3Dan 2:47
For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and I will bring you back into your own land. Ezk 37:21Ezk 34:13Amo 9:14-15Psa 107:2-3Deu 30:3-5Ezk 11:17Isa 43:5-6Jer 23:3-8 I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols. Heb 10:22Jhn 3:5Jer 33:81Jn 1:7Tit 3:5-6Eph 5:26-27Isa 4:4Zec 13:1-2 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. Ezk 11:19-20Psa 51:102Co 5:17Deu 30:6Jhn 3:3-52Co 3:3Jer 32:39Eph 2:10 And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances. Tit 3:3-6Heb 13:211Co 3:16Ezk 39:29Jer 31:33Pro 1:23Tit 2:11-14Isa 44:3-4
Then you will live in the land that I gave your forefathers; you will be My people, and I will be your God. Ezk 37:27Jer 31:33Jer 32:38Ezk 11:20Ezk 37:23Mat 22:32Rev 21:7Ezk 14:11 I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will summon the grain and make it plentiful, and I will not bring famine upon you. Hos 2:21-23Jhn 1:7-9Mat 1:21Hos 14:4Rom 11:26Tit 2:14Ezk 34:27-29Ezk 36:25 I will also make the fruit of the trees and the crops of the field plentiful, so that you will no longer bear reproach among the nations on account of famine. Ezk 34:27Jol 2:26Deu 29:23-28Jol 2:17Lev 26:4
Then you will remember your evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and abominations. Ezk 20:43Ezk 6:9Neh 9:26-35Ezk 16:61-63Isa 6:5Job 42:6Luk 18:13Dan 9:4-20 It is not for your sake that I will act, declares the Lord GOD—let it be known to you. Be ashamed and disgraced for your ways, O house of Israel! Deu 9:5Ezk 36:22Tit 3:3-62Ti 1:91Pe 4:2-3Dan 9:18-19Ezk 16:63Ezr 9:6
This is what the Lord GOD says: On the day I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be resettled and the ruins to be rebuilt. Ezk 36:10Isa 58:12Jer 33:10Zec 8:7-8Amo 9:14-15Jer 32:43Jer 50:19-20 The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through. Ezk 6:14Jer 25:9-112Ch 36:21Deu 29:23-28 Then they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and destroyed are now fortified and inhabited.’ Isa 51:3Jer 33:9Jol 2:3Psa 58:11Ezk 37:13Gen 13:10Psa 126:2Psa 64:9
Then the nations around you that remain will know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt what was destroyed, and I have replanted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it. Mat 24:35Ezk 17:24Ezk 37:14Num 23:19Hos 14:4-9Ezk 22:14Ezk 39:27-29Ezk 24:14
This is what the Lord GOD says: Once again I will hear the plea of the house of Israel and do for them this: I will multiply their people like a flock. 1Jn 5:14Heb 10:21-22Ezk 14:3Zec 10:6Zec 10:9Ezk 20:3Jas 4:2-3Ezk 20:31 Like the numerous flocks for sacrifices at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so the ruined cities will be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the LORD.” 1Ki 8:63Act 2:5-11Jhn 10:162Ch 30:21-272Ch 35:7-192Ch 7:8Deu 16:16Exo 23:17