Ezekiel 36

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1“Son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say, ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord.

2This is what the Sovereign Lord says: The enemy said of you, “Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession.” ’

3Therefore prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because they ravaged and hounded you from every side so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations and the object of people's malicious talk and slander,

4therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Sovereign Lord: This is what the Sovereign Lord says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and the deserted towns that have been plundered and ridiculed by the rest of the nations around you–

5this is what the Sovereign Lord says: In my burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, for with glee and with malice in their hearts they made my land their own possession so that they might plunder its pastureland.’

6Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I speak in my jealous wrath because you have suffered the scorn of the nations.

7Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I swear with uplifted hand that the nations around you will also suffer scorn.

8“ ‘But you, O mountains of Israel, will produce branches and fruit for my people Israel, for they will soon come home.

9I am concerned for you and will look on you with favor; you will be plowed and sown,

10and I will multiply the number of people upon you, even the whole house of Israel. The towns will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.

11I will increase the number of men and animals upon you, and they will be fruitful and become numerous. I will settle people on you as in the past and will make you prosper more than before. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

12I will cause people, my people Israel, to walk upon you. They will possess you, and you will be their inheritance; you will never again deprive them of their children.

13“ ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because people say to you, “You devour men and deprive your nation of its children,”

14therefore you will no longer devour men or make your nation childless, declares the Sovereign Lord.

15No longer will I make you hear the taunts of the nations, and no longer will you suffer the scorn of the peoples or cause your nation to fall, declares the Sovereign Lord.’ ”

16Again the word of the Lord came to me:

17“Son of man, when the people of Israel were living in their own land, they defiled it by their conduct and their actions. Their conduct was like a woman's monthly uncleanness in my sight.

18So I poured out my wrath on them because they had shed blood in the land and because they had defiled it with their idols.

19I dispersed them among the nations, and they were scattered through the countries; I judged them according to their conduct and their actions.

20And wherever they went among the nations they profaned my holy name, for it was said of them, ‘These are the Lord's people, and yet they had to leave his land.’

21I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Israel profaned among the nations where they had gone.

22“Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you have gone.

23I 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 Sovereign Lord, when I show myself holy through you before their eyes.

24“ ‘For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land.

25I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols.

26I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

27And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.

28You will live in the land I gave your forefathers; you will be my people, and I will be your God.

29I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain and make it plentiful and will not bring famine upon you.

30I will increase the fruit of the trees and the crops of the field, so that you will no longer suffer disgrace among the nations because of famine.

31Then you will remember your evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves for your sins and detestable practices.

32I want you to know that I am not doing this for your sake, declares the Sovereign Lord. Be ashamed and disgraced for your conduct, O house of Israel!

33“ ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On the day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will resettle your towns, and the ruins will be rebuilt.

34The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through it.

35They will say, “This land that was laid waste has become like the garden of Eden; the cities that were lying in ruins, desolate and destroyed, are now fortified and inhabited.”

36Then the nations around you that remain will know that I the Lord have rebuilt what was destroyed and have replanted what was desolate. I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it.’

37“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Once again I will yield to the plea of the house of Israel and do this for them: I will make their people as numerous as sheep,

38as numerous as the flocks for offerings at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts. So will the ruined cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Commentary

36:1-15 Those who put contempt and reproach on God's people, will have them turned on themselves. God promises favour to his Israel. We have no reason to complain, if the more unkind men are, the more kind God is. They shall come again to their own border. It was a type of the heavenly Canaan, of which all God's children are heirs, and into which they all shall be brought together. And when God returns in mercy to a people who return to him in duty, all their grievances will be set right. The full completion of this prophecy must be in some future event.

CHAPTER 36Eze 36:1-38. Israel Avenged of Her Foes, and Restored, First to Inward Holiness, Then to Outward Prosperity.The distinction between Israel and the heathen (as Edom) is: Israel has a covenant relation to God ensuring restoration after chastisement, so that the heathen's hope of getting possession of the elect people's inheritance must fail, and they themselves be made desolate (Eze 36:1-15). The reason for the chastisement of Israel was Israel's sin and profanation of God's name (Eze 36:16-21). God has good in store for Israel, for His own name's sake, to revive His people; first, by a spiritual renewal of their hearts, and, next, by an external restoration to prosperity (Eze 36:22-33). The result is that the heathen shall be impressed with the power and goodness of God manifested so palpably towards the restored people (Eze 36:34-38).1, 2. mountains of Israel—in contrast to "Mount Seir" of the previous prophecy. They are here personified; Israel's elevation is moral, not merely physical, as Edom's. Her hills are "the everlasting hills" of Jacob's prophecy (Ge 49:26). "The enemy" (Edom, the singled-out representative of all God's foes), with a shout of exultation, "Aha!" had claimed, as the nearest kinsman of Israel (the brother of their father Esau), his vacated inheritance; as much as to say, the so-called "everlasting" inheritance of Israel and of the "hills," which typified the unmoved perpetuity of it (Ps 125:1, 2), has come to an end, in spite of the promise of God, and has become "ours" (compare De 32:13; 33:15).

"\nAlso, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel,.... The land of Judah, which was very mountainous, at least one part of it, called the hill country, Lu 1:39 and now the country being cleared of men through the captivity, and other desolating judgments, there were none but bare mountains to speak unto: or, "prophesy concerning the mountains of Israel" {d}; the inhabitants of them, or those that should be restored to them, concerning their future happiness and comfort: some render it, "against the mountains of Israel" {e}; but the later prophecies of them are in their favour, and not against them:\n\nand say, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord; concerning the destruction of their enemies, and concerning the temporal blessings that should be bestowed on them.\n\n{d} \u05d0\u05dc \u05d4\u05e8\u05d9 \u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc "de montibus Israelis", Junius & Tremellius, Polanus. {e} "Contra montes Israelis", Vatablus.\n\n\n\n "

36:2 Because the enemy - Many were the enemies of God's people; but they so conspired in one design, that the prophet speaks of them as one, and particularly of Edom.

"\nThus saith the Lord God,.... By the mouth of the prophet, who was bid to prophesy:\n\nbecause the enemy had said against you, aha: rejoicing at the calamity of God's people, particularly the Edomites or Idumeans, as in the preceding chapter; and who are chiefly meant; and also the Ammonites and Tyrians, Eze 25:3:\n\neven the ancient high places are ours in possession; or, "the high places of the world shall be unto us for a possession" {f}; the land of Israel, according to Kimchi and others, was the highest part of the world, Jerusalem the highest part of that land, and the temple was built on the highest part of the city; and all these the Edomites claimed as their own, the land, city, and temple, and thought themselves sure of the same, as if they had them in actual possession; even the hilly part of the country, which had been so from the creation, and where stood many of the fortified and frontier towns and cities; which as strong as they were, or had been, they fancied would easily fall into their hands, now such desolations were made in the land.\n\n{f} \u05d1\u05de\u05d5\u05ea \u05e2\u05d5\u05dc\u05dd \u05dc\u05de\u05d5\u05e8\u05e9\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d9\u05ea\u05d4 \u05dc\u05e0\u05d5 "excelsa seculi haereditario jure futura sunt nobis", Junius Tremellius, Polanus "celsa seculi haereditas evenit nobis", Cocceius, Starckius.\n\n\n "

3. Literally, "Because, even because."swallowed you up—literally, "panted after" you, as a beast after its prey; implying the greedy cupidity of Edom as to Israel's inheritance (Ps 56:1, 2).lips of talkers—literally, "lips of the tongue," that is, of the slanderer, the man of tongue. Edom slandered Israel because of the connection of the latter with Jehovah, as though He were unable to save them. De 28:37, and Jer 24:9 had foretold Israel's reproach among the heathen (Da 9:16).

"\nTherefore prophesy and say, thus saith the Lord God,....

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AMHEVG አንተም፥ የሰው ልጅ ሆይ፥ ለእስራኤል ተራሮች ትንቢት ተናግረህ፦ የእስራኤል ተራሮች ሆይ፥ የእግዚአብሔርን ቃል ስሙ፡ በል። አማርኛ BCV ኣታ ወዲ ሰብ፥ ንእምባታት እስራኤል ተነበየሎም፤ ኣቱም እምባታት እስራኤል ቃል እግዚኣብሄር ስምዑ ከዓ በሎም። ትግርኛ GAZBIB Yaa mucaa namaa! Ati tulloota Israa'elitti raajii dubbadhuu,“Yaa tulloota Israa'el dubbii Waaqayyoo dhaga'aa!” Afaan Oromoo BCV GIZ ወአንተ ወልደ ዕጓለ እመሕያው፡ ተነበይ ለአድባረ እስራኤል፡ ወበል፦ አድባረ እስራኤል ስምዑ ቃለ እግዚአብሔር። giz GAZGAZ Yaa mucaa namaa! Ati tulloota Israa'elitti raajii dubbadhuu,“Yaa tulloota Israa'el dubbii Waaqayyoo dhaga'aa!” Afaan Oromoo BCV aksum ኣታ ወዲ ሰብ፥ ንእምባታት እስራኤል ተነበየሎም፤ ኣቱም እምባታት እስራኤል ቃል እግዚኣብሄር ስምዑ ከዓ በሎም። ትግርኛ AMHNIV “የሰው ልጅ ሆይ፤ ለእስራኤል ተራሮች ትንቢት ተናገር፤ እንዲህም በል፤ ‘የእስራኤል ተራሮች ሆይ፤ የእግዚአብሔርን ቃል ስሙ። አማርኛ SWAHSUV Na wewe, mwanadamu, itabirie milima ya Israeli, useme, Enyi milima ya Israeli, lisikieni neno la Bwana. Kiswahili