Ezekiel 36:1–8

Prophecy to the Mountains of Israel and of Israel’s Restoration

36“And you, son of man,^a prophesy to the mountains of Israel; and so you must say, ‘Mountains of Israel, hear the word of Yahweh; ²thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Because the enemy said concerning you, ‘Ah, and^b the ancient high places will be to us as a possession!’ ” ’ ³Therefore prophesy, and you must say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Because indeed^c when you were desolate,^d then they crushed you from all around, so that you became a possession to the remainder^e of the nations, and you became a byword and object of slander for the people.”^{f 4}Therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh; thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the river channels and to the valleys and to the ruins that are desolate and to the cities that are abandoned and that have become as plunder and as scorn for the remainder^g of the nations that are from all around. ⁵Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Certainly^h in the fire of my passion I spoke against the rest of the nations and against allⁱ Edom, who made my land as a possession, because of^j its pastureland for plunder, for themselves in all of the joy of their whole heart and in their inner disdain.”^{k 6}Therefore prophesy against the land of Israel, and you must say to the mountains and to the hills, to the river channels and to the valleys, thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Look! I spoke in my passion and in my anger the insult of the peoples you have endured.” ⁷Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “I swear^l certainly^m that the nations that are all around you,ⁿ they indeed will endure their disgrace.

⁸“ ‘ “But you, mountains of Israel, your branch you will shoot, and your fruit you will carry^o for my people Israel, for they are soon to come.