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you up on every side, so that you became the had defiled it. So I scattered them among the
possession of the rest of the nations, and you nations, and they were dispersed throughout
are taken up by the lips of talkers and slan- the countries; I judged them according to
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dered by the people”— therefore, O moun- their ways and their deeds. When they came
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tains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! to the nations, wherever they went, they pro-
Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, the faned My holy name—when they said of
hills, the rivers, the valleys, the desolate them, ‘These are the people of the LORD, and
wastes, and the cities that have been forsaken, yet they have gone out of His land.’ But I had
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which became plunder and mockery to the concern for My holy name, which the house
rest of the nations all around— therefore thus of Israel had profaned among the nations
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says the Lord GOD: “Surely I have spoken in wherever they went.
My burning jealousy against the rest of the 22 “Therefore say to the house of Israel,
nations and against all Edom, who gave My ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “I do not do this for
land to themselves as a possession, with your sake, O house of Israel, but for My holy
wholehearted joy and spiteful minds, in order name’s sake, which you have profaned among
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to plunder its open country.” ’ the nations wherever you went. And I will
6 “Therefore prophesy concerning the land sanctify My great name, which has been pro-
of Israel, and say to the mountains, the hills, faned among the nations, which you have pro-
the rivers, and the valleys, ‘Thus says the Lord faned in their midst; and the nations shall
GOD: “Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy know that I am the LORD,” says the Lord GOD,
and My fury, because you have borne the “when I am hallowed in you before their eyes.
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shame of the nations.” Therefore thus says 24 For I will take you from among the nations,
the Lord GOD: “I have raised My hand in an gather you out of all countries, and bring you
oath that surely the nations that are around into your own land. Then I will sprinkle clean
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you shall bear their own shame. But you, O water on you, and you shall be clean; I will
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mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your cleanse you from all your filthiness and from
branches and yield your fruit to My people Is- all your idols. I will give you a new heart and
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rael, for they are about to come. For indeed I put a new spirit within you; I will take the
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am for you, and I will turn to you, and you heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a
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shall be tilled and sown. I will multiply men heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you
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upon you, all the house of Israel, all of it; and and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you
the cities shall be inhabited and the ruins will keep My judgments and do them. Then
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rebuilt. I will multiply upon you man and you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your
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beast; and they shall increase and bear young; fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be
I will make you inhabited as in former times, your God. I will deliver you from all your
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and do better for you than at your beginnings. uncleannesses. I will call for the grain and
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Then you shall know that I am the LORD. Yes, multiply it, and bring no famine upon you.
I will cause men to walk on you, My people Is- 30 And I will multiply the fruit of your trees and
rael; they shall take possession of you, and the increase of your fields, so that you need
you shall be their inheritance; no more shall never again bear the reproach of famine
you bereave them of children.” among the nations. Then you will remember
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13 ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Because they your evil ways and your deeds that were not
say to you, ‘You devour men and bereave your
nation of children,’ therefore you shall devour
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men no more, nor bereave your nation any-
more,” says the Lord GOD. “Nor will I let you 36:25–27 I will cleanse you. Along with the
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hear the taunts of the nations anymore, nor physical reality of a return to the land, God
bear the reproach of the peoples anymore, nor pledged spiritual renewal: 1) cleansing from
shall you cause your nation to stumble any- sin; 2) a new heart of the New Covenant (Jer.
more,” says the Lord GOD.’ ” 31:31–34); 3) a new spirit or disposition
16 Moreover the word of the LORD came to inclined to worship Him; and 4) His Spirit
me, saying: “Son of man, when the house of dwelling in them, enabling them to walk in
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Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it obedience to His word. This has not hap-
by their own ways and deeds; to Me their way pened, because Israel has not trusted Jesus
was like the uncleanness of a woman in her Christ as Messiah and Savior, but it will before
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customary impurity. Therefore I poured out the kingdom of Messiah (Zech. 12–14; Rom.
My fury on them for the blood they had shed 11:25–27; Rev. 11:13).
on the land, and for their idols with which they
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