shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.
27 And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and
they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I amthe LORD, when I have broken the bands
of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.
28 And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour
them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make themafraid.
29 And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with
hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.
30 Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God amwith them, and thatthey, eventhe house
of Israel, aremy people, saith the Lord GOD.
31 And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, aremen, andI amyour God, saith the Lord GOD.
1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
3 And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I amagainst thee, and I will
stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I amthe
LORD.
5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood ofthe children of Israel by
the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that theiriniquity hadan end:
6 Therefore, asI live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue
thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
7 Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him
that returneth.
8 And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy
rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
9 I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that
I amthe LORD.
10 Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we
will possess it; whereas the LORD was there:
11 Therefore, asI live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and
according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make
myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
12 And thou shalt know that I amthe LORD, and thatI have heard all thy blasphemies which
thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given
us to consume.
13 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against
me: I have heard them.
14 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.
15 As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so
will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, evenall of it: and they
shall know that I amthe LORD.
1 Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto 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 against you, Aha, even the ancient high
places are ours in possession:
3 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made youdesolate,
and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the
heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and arean infamy 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 rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to
the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen
that areround about;
5 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the
residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their
possession with the joy of all theirheart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
6 Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills,
to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy
and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen:
7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are
about you, they shall bear their shame.
8 But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my
people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.
9 For, behold, I amfor you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:
10 And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, evenall of it: and the cities shall
be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded:
11 And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I
will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto youthan at your beginnings: and
ye shall know that I amthe LORD.
12 Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, evenmy people Israel; and they shall possess thee,
and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men.
13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou landdevourest up men, and hast
bereaved thy nations;
14 Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the
Lord GOD.
15 Neither will I cause mento hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt
thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any
more, saith the Lord GOD.
16 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own
way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.
18 Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for
their idols wherewiththey had polluted it:
19 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.
20 And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name,
when they said to them, These arethe people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.
21 But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen,
whither they went.
22 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not thisfor your sakes,
O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen,
whither ye went.
23 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 amthe LORD, saith the Lord
GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will
bring you into your own land.
25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and
from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away
the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep
my judgments, and do them.
28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I
will be your God.
29 I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will
increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive
no more reproach of famine among the heathen.
31 Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that werenot good, and shall
lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
32 Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and
confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.
33 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I
will also cause youto dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.
34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed
by.
35 And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the
waste and desolate and ruined cities are becomefenced, andare inhabited.
36 Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined
places, andplant that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it.
37 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet forthis be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do itfor
them; I will increase them with men like a flock.
38 As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities
be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I amthe LORD.
1 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me
down in the midst of the valley which wasfull of bones,
2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there werevery many in the open
valley; and, lo, they werevery dry.
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou
knowest.
4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the
word of the LORD.
5 Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye
shall live:
6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and
put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I amthe LORD.
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a
shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them
above: but there wasno breath in them.
9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they
may live.
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and
stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they
say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.