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Chapter 34
[1] And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, [2] Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say to the shepherds,
Thus saith the Lord God; O shepherds of Israel, do shepherds feed themselves? do not the shepherds feed the sheep? [3] Behold, ye feed on the milk, and clothe yourselves with the wool, and slay the fat: but ye feed not my sheep. [4] The weak one ye have not strengthened, and the sick ye have not cherished, and the bruised ye have not bound up, and the stray one ye have not turned back, and the lost ye have not sought; and the strong ye have wearied with labour. [5] And my sheep were scattered, because there were no shepherds: and they became meat to all the wild beasts of the field. [6] And my sheep were scattered on every mountain, and on every high hill: yea, they were scattered on the face of the earth, and there was none to seek them out, nor to bring them back.
[7] Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord. [8] As I live, saith the Lord God, surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became meat to all the wild beasts of the field, because there were no shepherds, and the shepherds sought not out my sheep, and the shepherds fed themselves, but fed not my sheep. [9] For this cause, O shepherds, [10] thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hands, and will turn them back that they shall not feed my sheep, and the shepherds shall no longer feed them; and I will deliver my sheep out of their mouth, and they shall no longer be meat for them.
[11] For thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will seek out my sheep, and will visit them. [12] As the shepherd seeks his flock, in the day when there is darkness and cloud, in the midst of the sheep that are separated: so will I seek out my sheep, and will bring them back from every place where they were scattered in the day of cloud and darkness. [13] And I will bring them out from the Gentiles, and will gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land, and will feed them upon the mountains of Israel, and in the valleys, and in every inhabited place of the land. [14] I will feed them in a good pasture, on a high mountain of Israel: and their folds shall be there, and they shall lie down, and there shall they rest in perfect prosperity, and they shall feed in a fat pasture on the mountains of Israel. [15] I will feed my sheep, and I will cause them to rest; and they shall know that I am the Lord: thus saith the Lord God. [16] I will seek that which is lost, and I will recover the stray one, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen the fainting, and will guard the strong, and will feed them with judgment.
[17] And as for you, ye sheep, thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will distinguish between sheep and sheep, between rams and he-goats. [18] And is it not enough for you that ye fed on the good pasture, that ye trampled with your feet the remnant of your pasture? and that ye drank the standing water, that ye disturbed the residue with your feet? [19] So my sheep fed on that which ye had trampled with your feet; and they drank the water that had been disturbed by your feet.
[20] Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will separate between the strong sheep and the weak sheep. [21] Ye did thrust with your sides and shoulders, and pushed with your horns, and ye cruelly treated all the sick. [22] Therefore I will save my sheep, and they shall not be any more for a prey; and will judge between ram and ram.
[23] And I will raise up one shepherd over them, and he shall tend them, even my servant David, and he shall be their shepherd; [24] and I the Lord will be to them a God, and David a prince in the midst of them; I the Lord have spoken it. [25] And I will make with David a covenant of peace and I will utterly destroy evil beasts from off the land; and they shall dwell in the wilderness, and sleep in the forests. [26] And I will settle them round about my mountain; and I will give you the rain, the rain of blessing. [27] And the trees that are in the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield her strength, and they shall dwell in the confidence of peace on their land, and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have broken their yoke; and I will deliver them out of the hand of those that enslaved them. [28] And they shall no more be a spoil to the nations, and the wild beasts of the land shall no more at all devour them; and they shall dwell safely, and there shall be none to make them afraid. [29] And I will raise up for them a plant of peace, and they shall no more perish with hunger upon the land, and they shall no more bear the reproach off the nations.
[30] And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, and they my people. O house of Israel, saith the Lord God, [31] ye are my sheep, even the sheep of my flock, and I am the Lord your God, saith the Lord God.
Chapter 35
[1] And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, [2] Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it, [3] and say to it,
Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against thee, and will make thee a waste, and thou shalt be made desolate. [4] And I will cause desolation in thy cities, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. [5] Because thou hast been a perpetual enemy, and hast laid wait craftily for the house of Israel, with the hand of enemies with a sword, in the time of injustice, at the last:
[6] Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord God, verily thou hast sinned even to blood, therefore blood shall pursue thee. [7] And I will make mount Seir a waste, and desolate, and I will destroy from off it men and cattle: [8] and I will fill thy hills and thy valleys with slain men, and in all thy plains there shall fall in thee men slain with the sword. [9] I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall not be inhabited any more: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
[10] Because thou saidst, The two nations and the two countries shall be mine, and I shall inherit them; whereas the Lord is there: [11] therefore, as I live, saith the Lord, I will even deal with thee according to thine enmity, and I will be made known to thee when I shall judge thee: [12] and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. I have heard the voice of thy blasphemies, whereas thou hast said, The desert mountains of Israel are given to us for food; [13] and thou hast spoken swelling words against me with thy mouth: I have heard them.
[14] Thus saith the Lord; When all the earth is rejoicing, I will make thee desert. [15] Thou shalt be desert, O mount Seir, and all Idumea; and it shall be utterly consumed: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord their God.
Chapter 36
[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.
Chapter 37
[1] And the hand of the Lord came upon me, and the Lord brought me forth by the Spirit, and set me in the midst of the plain, and it was full of human bones. [2] And he led me round about them every way: and, behold, there were very many on the face of the plain, very dry.
[3] And he said to me, Son of man, will these bones live? and I said, O Lord God, thou knowest this. [4] And he said to me, Prophesy upon these bones, and thou shalt say to them, Ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. [5] Thus saith the Lord to these bones; Behold, I will bring upon you the breath of life: [6] and I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and will spread skin upon you, and will put my Spirit into you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
[7] So I prophesied as the Lord commanded me: and it came to pass while I was prophesying, that, behold, there was a shaking, and the bones approached each one to his joint. [8] And I looked, and behold, sinews and flesh grew upon them, and skin came upon them above: but there was not breath in them. [9] And he said to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord; Come from the four winds, and breathe upon these dead men, and let them live. [10] So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath entered into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, a very great congregation.
[11] And the Lord spoke to me, saying, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: and they say, Our bones are become dry, our hope has perished, we are quite spent. [12] therefore prophesy and say,
Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will open your tombs, and will bring you up out of your tombs, and will bring you into the land of Israel. [13] And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, that I may bring up my people from their graves. [14] And I will put my Spirit within you, and ye shall live, and I will place you upon your own land: and ye shall know that I am the Lord; I have spoken, and will do it, saith the Lord.
[15] And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, [16] Son of man, take for thyself a rod, and write upon it, Juda, and the children of Israel his adherents; and thou shalt take for thyself another rod, and thou shalt inscribe it for Joseph, the rod of Ephraim, and all the children of Israel that belong to him. [17] And thou shalt joint them together for thyself, so as that they should bind themselves into one stick; and they shall be in thine hand.
[18] And it shall come to pass, when the children of thy people shall say to thee, Wilt thou not tell us what thou meanest by these things? [19] Then shalt thou say to them, Thus saith the Lord; behold, I will take the tribe of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel that belong to him, and I will add them to the tribe of Juda, and they shall become one rod in the hand of Juda. [20] And the rods on which thou didst write shall be in thine hand in their presence. [21] And thou shalt say to them,
Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the whole house of Israel out of the midst of the nations, among whom they have gone, and I will gather them from all that are round about them, and I will bring them into the land of Israel. [22] And I will make them a nation in my land, even on the mountains of Israel; and they shall have one prince: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided any more at all into two kingdoms: [23] that they may no more defile themselves with their idols; and I will deliver them from all their transgressions whereby they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be to me a people, and I the Lord will be to them a God.
[24] And my servant David shall be a prince in the midst of them: there shall be one shepherd of them all; for they shall walk in mine ordinances, and keep my judgments, and do them. [25] And they shall dwell in their land, which I have given to my servant Jacob, where their fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell upon it: and David my servant shall be their prince forever.
[26] And I will make with them a covenant of peace; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will establish my sanctuary in the midst of them for ever. [27] And my tabernacle shall be among them; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be
my people. [28] And the nations shall know that I am the Lord that sanctifies them, when my sanctuary is in the midst of them for ever.
Chapter 38
[1] And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, [2] Son of man, set thy face against Gog, and the land of Magog, Rhos, prince of Mesoch and Thobel, and prophesy against him, [3] and say to him, Thus saith the Lord God;
Behold, I am against thee, Rhos prince of Mesoch and Thobel: [4] and I will gather thee, and all thine host, horses and horsemen, all wearing breast-plates, with a great multitude, shields and helmets and swords: [5] Persians, and Ethiopians, and Libyans; all with helmets and shields. [6] Gomer, and all belonging to him; the house of Thorgama, from the end of the north, and all belonging to him; and many nations with thee.
[7] Be thou prepared, prepare thyself, thou, and all thy multitude that is assembled with thee, and thou shalt be to me for a guard. [8] He shall be prepared after many days, and he shall come at the end of years, and shall come to a land that is brought back from the sword, when the people are gathered from many nations against the land of Israel, which was entirely desolate: and he is come forth out of the nations, and they shall all dwell securely. [9] And thou shalt go up as rain, and shalt arrive as a cloud to cover the land, and there shall be thou, and all that are about thee, and many nations with thee.
[10] Thus saith the Lord God; It shall also come to pass in that day, that thoughts shall come up into thine heart, and thou shalt devise evil devices. [11] And thou shalt say, I will go up to the rejected land; I will come upon them that are at ease in tranquility, and dwelling in peace, all inhabiting a land in which there is no wall, nor bars, nor have they doors; [12] to seize plunder, and to take their spoil; to turn my hands against the desolate land that is now inhabited, and against a nation that is gathered from many nations, that have acquired property, dwelling in the midst of the land. [13] Sabba, and Daedan, and Carthaginian merchants, and all their villages shall say to thee, Thou art come for plunder to take a prey, and to get spoils: thou hast gathered thy multitude to take silver and gold, to carry off property, to take spoils.