Ezekiel 36 (NET)

Ezekiel 36:1¹“As for you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say: ‘O mountains of Israel, listen to the Lord ’s message!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 20:47Ezek 33:28Ezek 34:14Ezek 36:4Ezek 36:8Ezek 37:22Ezek 37:4Ezek 6:2-3Jer 22:29

Ezekiel 36:2²This is what the Sovereign Lord says: The enemy has spoken against you, saying “Aha!” and, “The ancient heights have become our property!”’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 32:13Ezek 25:3Ezek 35:10Ezek 26:2Hab 3:19Isa 58:14Jer 49:1Ps 78:69Ezek 36:5

Ezekiel 36:3³So prophesy and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Surely because they have made you desolate and crushed you from all directions, so that you have become the property of the rest of the nations, and have become the subject of gossip and slander among the people,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 44:13-14Jer 18:16Lam 2:15-161 Kgs 9:7-8Dan 9:16Deut 28:37Ezek 13:10Jer 24:9Jer 33:24Jer 39:1-18

Ezekiel 36:4⁴therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Sovereign Lord. This is what the Sovereign Lord says to the mountains and hills, the ravines and valleys, and to the desolate ruins and the abandoned cities that have become prey and an object of derision to the rest of the nations round about;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 11:11Ezek 34:28Ezek 36:1Ezek 36:6Ps 79:42 Chr 36:17-21Ezek 36:33-35Ezek 6:14Ezek 6:3Isa 24:1-12

Ezekiel 36:5⁵therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Surely I have spoken in the fire of my zeal against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who with great joy and utter contempt have made my land their property and prey, because of its pasture.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 36:3Mic 7:8Deut 4:24Ezek 38:19Jer 25:15-29Jer 25:9Ps 137:7Ps 83:4-12Zech 1:15Amos 1:11-12

Ezekiel 36:6⁶“Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, the ravines and valleys, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Look, I have spoken in my zeal and in my anger, because you have endured the insults of the nations.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 34:29Ps 123:3-4Ps 74:10Ps 74:23Ezek 36:15Ezek 36:4-5Ps 74:18

Ezekiel 36:7⁷So this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I vow that the nations around you will endure insults as well.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 20:5Amos 1:1-15Deut 32:40Ezek 20:15Ezek 25:1-17Jer 25:15-29Jer 25:9Jer 47:1-7Rev 10:5-6Zeph 2:1-15

Ezekiel 36:8⁸“‘But you, mountains of Israel, will grow your branches and bear your fruit for my people Israel, for they will arrive soon.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 27:6Ezek 34:26-29Heb 10:37Amos 9:13-15Ezek 12:25Ezek 17:23Hos 2:21-23Isa 30:23Isa 4:2Jas 5:8-9

Ezekiel 36:9⁹For indeed, I am on your side; I will turn to you, and you will be plowed and planted.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 46:11Ezek 36:34Hos 2:21-23Rom 8:31Zech 8:12Hag 2:19Joel 3:18Mal 3:10-11Ps 99:8

Ezekiel 36:10¹⁰I will multiply your people —the whole house of Israel, all of it. The cities will be populated and the ruins rebuilt.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 36:33Jer 30:19Jer 33:12Ezek 36:37Isa 27:6Jer 31:27-28Amos 9:14Isa 41:17-23Isa 49:17-23Isa 51:3

Ezekiel 36:11¹¹I will increase the number of people and animals on you; they will increase and be fruitful. I will cause you to be inhabited as in ancient times and will do more good for you than at the beginning of your history. Then you will know that I am the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 33:12Jer 23:5-8Mic 7:14Ezek 37:13Jer 31:27Amos 9:15Ezek 16:55Hos 2:20Jer 30:18Job 42:12

Ezekiel 36:12¹²I will lead people, my people Israel, across you; they will possess you, and you will become their inheritance. No longer will you bereave them of their children.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 15:7Ezek 36:13Ezek 47:14Jer 32:44Num 13:32Obad 1:17-21Jer 32:15

Ezekiel 36:13¹³“‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because they are saying to you, “You are a devourer of men and bereave your nation of children,”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 13:32

Ezekiel 36:14¹⁴therefore you will no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the Sovereign Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 9:15Ezek 37:25-28Isa 60:21

Ezekiel 36:15¹⁵I will no longer subject you to the nations’ insults; no longer will you bear the shame of the peoples, and no longer will you bereave your nation, declares the Sovereign Lord.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 34:29Ps 89:50Ezek 36:6Isa 54:4Isa 60:14Mic 7:8-10Zeph 2:8Zeph 3:19-20

Ezekiel 36:16¹⁶The Lord’ s message came to me:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Ezekiel 36:17¹⁷“Son of man, when the house of Israel was living on their own land, they defiled it by their behavior and their deeds. In my sight their behavior was like the uncleanness of a woman having her monthly period.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 2:7Mic 2:10Num 35:33-34Isa 24:5Jer 16:18Lev 15:19-33Isa 64:6Jer 3:1-2Jer 3:9Lev 18:24-28

Ezekiel 36:18¹⁸So I poured my anger on them because of the blood they shed on the land and because of the idols with which they defiled it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 34:21Ezek 7:8Lam 2:4Lam 4:112 Chr 34:26Ezek 14:19Ezek 16:36-38Ezek 21:31Ezek 23:37Isa 42:25

Ezekiel 36:19¹⁹I scattered them among the nations; they were dispersed throughout foreign countries. In accordance with their behavior and their deeds I judged them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 28:64Ezek 39:24Amos 9:9Ezek 18:30Ezek 22:15Ezek 5:12Rom 2:6Ezek 22:31Ezek 7:3Ezek 7:8

Ezekiel 36:20²⁰But when they arrived in the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name. It was said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, yet they have departed from his land.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 52:5Rom 2:24Jer 33:24Dan 3:15Exod 32:11-132 Kgs 18:302 Kgs 18:352 Kgs 19:10-12Ezek 12:16Josh 7:9

Ezekiel 36:21²¹I was concerned for my holy reputation, which the house of Israel profaned among the nations where they went.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 48:9Ps 74:18Ezek 20:9Deut 32:26-27Ezek 20:14Ezek 20:22Isa 37:35

Ezekiel 36:22²²“Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: It is not for your sake that I am about to act, O house of Israel, but for the sake of my holy reputation, which you profaned among the nations where you went.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 106:8Ezek 36:32Ps 115:1-2Deut 7:7-8Deut 9:5-7

Ezekiel 36:23²³I will magnify my great name that has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned among them. The nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Sovereign Lord, when I magnify myself among you in their sight.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 20:41Ezek 39:7Isa 5:161 Pet 2:9Ezek 39:28Ps 126:1-3Ps 46:10Dan 2:47Dan 3:28-29Dan 4:2-3

Ezekiel 36:24²⁴“‘I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries; then I will bring you to your land.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 37:21Ezek 34:13Amos 9:14-15Ps 107:2-3Deut 30:3-5Ezek 11:17Isa 43:5-6Jer 23:3-8Jer 30:18Jer 30:3

Ezekiel 36:25²⁵I will sprinkle you with pure water, and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 10:22John 3:5Jer 33:81 John 1:7Titus 3:5-6Eph 5:26-27Isa 4:4Zech 13:1-2Ps 51:7Titus 2:14

Ezekiel 36:26²⁶I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone from your body and give you a heart of flesh.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 11:19-20Ps 51:102 Cor 5:17John 3:3-5Deut 30:62 Cor 3:3Jer 32:39Eph 2:10Rev 21:52 Cor 3:18

Ezekiel 36:27²⁷I will put my Spirit within you; I will take the initiative, and you will obey my statutes and carefully observe my regulations.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Titus 3:3-61 Cor 3:16Ezek 39:29Heb 13:21Jer 31:33Prov 1:23Titus 2:11-14Isa 44:3-4Gal 5:22-231 John 3:24

Ezekiel 36:28²⁸Then you will live in the land I gave to your fathers; you will be my people, and I will be your God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 37:27Jer 31:33Jer 32:38Ezek 11:20Ezek 37:23Matt 22:32Rev 21:7Ezek 14:11Ezek 37:25Jer 30:22-23

Ezekiel 36:29²⁹I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain and multiply it; I will not bring a famine on you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 2:21-23John 1:7-9Matt 1:21Hos 14:4Rom 11:26Titus 2:14Ezek 34:27-29Ezek 36:25Ezek 36:8-9Hos 14:2

Ezekiel 36:30³⁰I will multiply the fruit of the trees and the produce of the fields, so that you will never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 34:27Joel 2:26Deut 29:23-28Joel 2:17Lev 26:4

Ezekiel 36:31³¹Then you will remember your evil behavior and your deeds that were not good; you will loathe yourselves on account of your sins and your abominable deeds.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 20:43Ezek 6:9Neh 9:26-35Ezek 16:61-63Isa 6:5Job 42:6Dan 9:4-20Ezra 9:6-15Jer 31:18-20Lev 26:39

Ezekiel 36:32³²Understand that it is not for your sake I am about to act, declares the Sovereign Lord. Be ashamed and embarrassed by your behavior, O house of Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 9:5Ezek 36:22Titus 3:3-62 Tim 1:91 Pet 4:2-3Dan 9:18-19Ezek 16:63Ezra 9:6Rom 6:21

Ezekiel 36:33³³“‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: In the day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will populate the cities, and the ruins will be rebuilt.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 36:10Isa 58:12Jer 33:10Zech 8:7-8Amos 9:14-15Jer 32:43Jer 50:19-20

Ezekiel 36:34³⁴The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 6:14Jer 25:9-112 Chr 36:21Deut 29:23-28

Ezekiel 36:35³⁵They will say, “This desolate land has become like the garden of Eden; the ruined, desolate, and destroyed cities are now fortified and inhabited.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 51:3Jer 33:9Joel 2:3Ps 58:11Ezek 37:13Gen 13:10Ps 126:2Ps 64:9Gen 2:8-9

Ezekiel 36:36³⁶Then the nations that remain around you will know that I, the Lord, have rebuilt the ruins and replanted what was desolate. I, the Lord, have spoken—and I will do it!’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 24:35Ezek 17:24Ezek 37:14Num 23:19Hos 14:4-9Ezek 22:14Ezek 39:27-29Ezek 24:14Ezek 37:28Mic 7:15-17

Ezekiel 36:37³⁷“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will allow the house of Israel to ask me to do this for them: I will multiply their people like sheep.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 5:14Heb 10:21-22Ezek 14:3Zech 10:6Zech 10:9Ezek 20:3Jas 4:2-3Ezek 20:31Heb 4:16Isa 55:6-7

Ezekiel 36:38³⁸Like the sheep for offerings, like the sheep of Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so the ruined cities will be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 8:63Acts 2:5-11John 10:162 Chr 30:21-272 Chr 35:7-192 Chr 7:8Deut 16:16Exod 23:17Exod 34:23Ezek 34:31