the shame of the nations:
036:007 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I have sworn, [saying],
Surely the nations that are round about you, they shall
bear their shame.
036:008 But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches,
and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at
hand to come.
036:009 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn into you, and you
shall be tilled and sown;
036:010 and I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel,
even all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited, and the waste
places shall be built;
036:011 and I will multiply on you man and animal; and they shall increase
and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited after your
former estate, and will do better [to you] than at your beginnings:
and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
036:012 Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, even my people Israel;
and they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance,
and you shall no more henceforth bereave them of children.
036:013 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because they say to you,
You [land] are a devourer of men, and have been a bereaver
of your nation;
036:014 therefore you shall devour men no more, neither bereave your
nation any more, says the Lord Yahweh;
036:015 neither will I let you hear any more the shame of the nations,
neither shall you bear the reproach of the peoples any more,
neither shall you cause your nation to stumble any more,
says the Lord Yahweh.
036:016 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
036:017 Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land,
they defiled it by their way and by their doings:
their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman
in her impurity.
036:018 Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they
had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it
with their idols;
036:019 and I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed
through the countries: according to their way and according
to their doings I judged them.
036:020 When they came to the nations, where they went, they profaned
my holy name; in that men said of them, These are the people
of Yahweh, and are gone forth out of his land.
036:021 But I had regard for my holy name, which the house of Israel
had profaned among the nations, where they went.
036:022 Therefore tell the house of Israel, Thus says the
Lord Yahweh: I don't do [this] for your sake, house of Israel,
but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations,
where you went.
036:023 I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among
the nations, which you have profaned in the midst of them;
and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, says the Lord Yahweh,
when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
036:024 For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out
of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.
036:025 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean:
from all your filthiness, and from all your idols,
will I cleanse you.
036:026 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 a heart of flesh.
036:027 I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in
my statutes, and you shall keep my ordinances, and do them.
036:028 You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers;
and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
036:029 I will save you from all your uncleanness: and I will call
for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine on you.
036:030 I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase
of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach
of famine among the nations.
036:031 Then shall you remember your evil ways, and your doings that
were not good; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own
sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
036:032 Nor for your sake do I [this], says the Lord Yahweh, be it
known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways,
house of Israel.
036:033 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day that I cleanse you from
all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited,
and the waste places shall be built.
036:034 The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was
a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.
036:035 They shall say, This land that was desolate is become like
the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined
cities are fortified and inhabited.
036:036 Then the nations that are left round about you shall know
that I, Yahweh, have built the ruined places, and planted
that which was desolate: I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and I
will do it.
036:037 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: For this, moreover, will I
be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them:
I will increase them with men like a flock.
036:038 As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her
appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with
flocks of men; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
037:001 The hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me out in the Spirit
of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley;
and it was full of bones.
037:002 He caused me to pass by them round about: and behold,
there were very many in the open valley; and behold,
they were very dry.
037:003 He said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? I answered,
Lord Yahweh, you know.
037:004 Again he said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and tell them,
you dry bones, hear the word of Yahweh.
037:005 Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: Behold, I will cause
breath to enter into you, and you shall live.
037:006 I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you,
and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live;
and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
037:007 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied,
there was a noise, and behold, an earthquake; and the bones
came together, bone to its bone.
037:008 I saw, and, behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh came up,
and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them.
037:009 Then said he to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man,
and tell the wind, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Come from
the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain,
that they may live.
037:010 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came
into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet,
an exceedingly great army.
037:011 Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole
house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up,
and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.
037:012 Therefore prophesy, and tell them, Thus says the
Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you
to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring
you into the land of Israel.
037:013 You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves,
and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people.
037:014 I will put my Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place
you in your own land: and you shall know that I, Yahweh,
have spoken it and performed it, says Yahweh.
037:015 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
037:016 You, son of man, take one stick, and write on it, For Judah,
and for the children of Israel his companions: then take
another stick, and write on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim,
and [for] all the house of Israel his companions:
037:017 and join them for you one to another into one stick, that they
may become one in your hand.
037:018 When the children of your people shall speak to you, saying,
Will you not show us what you mean by these?
037:019 tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will take
the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim,
and the tribes of Israel his companions; and I will put them
with it, [even] with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick,
and they shall be one in my hand.
037:020 The sticks whereon you write shall be in your hand before their eyes.
037:021 Say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will take
the children of Israel from among the nations, where they
are gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them
into their own land:
037:022 and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains
of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all; and they
shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided
into two kingdoms any more at all;
037:023 neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols,
nor with their detestable things, nor with any of
their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their
dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them:
so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
037:024 My servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall
have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my ordinances,
and observe my statutes, and do them.
037:025 They shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant,
in which your fathers lived; and they shall dwell therein, they,
and their children, and their children's children, forever:
and David my servant shall be their prince for ever.
037:026 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall
be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them,
and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst
of them forevermore.
037:027 My tent also shall be with them; and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
037:028 The nations shall know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies Israel,
when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them forevermore.
038:001 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
038:002 Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog,
the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
038:003 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you,
Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:
038:004 and I will turn you about, and put hooks into your jaws, and I
will bring you forth, and all your army, horses and horsemen,
all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler
and shield, all of them handling swords;
038:005 Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;
038:006 Gomer, and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in
the uttermost parts of the north, and all his hordes;
even many peoples with you.
038:007 Be prepared, yes, prepare yourself, you, and all your companies
who are assembled to you, and be a guard to them.
038:008 After many days you shall be visited: in the latter years you
shall come into the land that is brought back from the sword,
that is gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel,
which have been a continual waste; but it is brought
forth out of the peoples, and they shall dwell securely,
all of them.
038:009 You shall ascend, you shall come like a storm, you shall
be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes,
and many peoples with you.
038:010 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: It shall happen in that day,
that things shall come into your mind, and you shall devise
an evil device:
038:011 and you shall say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages;
I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely,
all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither
bars nor gates;
038:012 to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn your hand
against the waste places that are [now] inhabited,
and against the people who are gathered out of the nations,
who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle
of the earth.
038:013 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all
the young lions of it, shall tell you, Are you come to take
the spoil? have you assembled your company to take the prey?
to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods,
to take great spoil?
038:014 Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and tell Gog, Thus says the
Lord Yahweh: In that day when my people Israel dwells securely,
shall you not know it?
038:015 You shall come from your place out of the uttermost parts
of the north, you, and many peoples with you, all of them
riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army;
038:016 and you shall come up against my people Israel, as a cloud
to cover the land: it shall happen in the latter days, that I
will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me,
when I shall be sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes.
038:017 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Are you he of whom I spoke in old
time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in
those days for [many] years that I would bring you against them?
038:018 It shall happen in that day, when Gog shall come against the land
of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh, that my wrath shall come up
into my nostrils.
038:019 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken,
Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the
land of Israel;
038:020 so that the fish of the sea, and the birds of the sky,
and the animals of the field, and all creeping things who
creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the surface
of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains
shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall,
and every wall shall fall to the ground.
038:021 I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains,
says the Lord Yahweh: every man's sword shall be
against his brother.
038:022 With pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment
with him; and I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on
the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower,
and great hailstones, fire, and sulfur.
038:023 I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make
myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know
that I am Yahweh.
039:001 You, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says
the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince
of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:
039:002 and I will turn you about, and will lead you on, and will
cause you to come up from the uttermost parts of the north;
and I will bring you on the mountains of Israel;
039:003 and I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause
your arrows to fall out of your right hand.
039:004 You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all
your hordes, and the peoples who are with you:
I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort,
and to the animals of the field to be devoured.
039:005 You shall fall on the open field; for I have spoken it,
says the Lord Yahweh.
039:006 I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who dwell securely
in the islands; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
039:007 My holy name will I make known in the midst of my people Israel;
neither will I allow my holy name to be profaned any more:
and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.
039:008 Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh;
this is the day about which I have spoken.
039:009 Those who dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth,
and shall make fires of the weapons and burn them,
both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows,
and the war clubs, and the spears, and they shall make fires
of them seven years;
039:010 so that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut
down any out of the forests; for they shall make fires of
the weapons; and they shall plunder those who plundered them,
and rob those who robbed them, says the Lord Yahweh.
039:011 It shall happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place
for burial in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on
the east of the sea; and it shall stop those who pass through:
and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude;
and they shall call it The valley of Hamon Gog.
039:012 Seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them,
that they may cleanse the land.
039:013 Yes, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall
be to them a renown in the day that I shall be glorified,
says the Lord Yahweh.
039:014 They shall set apart men of continual employment, who shall pass
through the land, and, with those who pass through, those who bury
those who remain on the surface of the land, to cleanse it:
after the end of seven months shall they search.
039:015 Those who pass through the land shall pass through;
and when any sees a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign
by it, until the undertakers have buried it in the valley
of Hamon Gog.
039:016 Hamonah shall also be the name of a city. Thus shall they
cleanse the land.
039:017 You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Speak to
the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field,
Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side
to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great
sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh
and drink blood.
039:018 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood
of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats,
of bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
039:019 You shall eat fat until you be full, and drink blood until you
be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
039:020 You shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots,
with mighty men, and with all men of war, says the Lord Yahweh.
039:021 I will set my glory among the nations; and all the nations
shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I
have laid on them.
039:022 So the house of Israel shall know that I am Yahweh their God,
from that day and forward.
039:023 The nations shall know that the house of Israel went into
captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me,
and I hid my face from them: so I gave them into the hand
of their adversaries, and they fell all of them by the sword.
039:024 According to their uncleanness and according to their
transgressions did I to them; and I hid my face from them.
039:025 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Now will I bring back
the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house
of Israel; and I will be jealous for my holy name.
039:026 They shall bear their shame, and all their trespasses by
which they have trespassed against me, when they shall dwell
securely in their land, and none shall make them afraid;
039:027 when I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered
them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them
in the sight of many nations.
039:028 They shall know that I am Yahweh their God, in that I caused
them to go into captivity among the nations, and have gathered
them to their own land; and I will leave none of them
any more there;
039:029 neither will I hide my face any more from them; for I have poured
out my Spirit on the house of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh.
040:001 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning
of the year, in the tenth [day] of the month, in the fourteenth
year after that the city was struck, in the same day,
the hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me there.
040:002 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel,
and set me down on a very high mountain, whereon was as it
were the frame of a city on the south.
040:003 He brought me there; and, behold, there was a man,
whose appearance was like the appearance of brass,
with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed;
and he stood in the gate.
040:004 The man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear
with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall
show you; for, to the intent that I may show them to you,
are you brought here: declare all that you see to the
house of Israel.
040:005 Behold, a wall on the outside of the house round about,
and in the man's hand a measuring reed six cubits long,
of a cubit and a handbreadth each: so he measured the thickness
of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
040:006 Then came he to the gate which looks toward the east, and went
up the steps of it: and he measured the threshold of the gate,
one reed broad; and the other threshold, one reed broad.
040:007 Every lodge was one reed long, and one reed broad;
and [the space] between the lodges was five cubits;
and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward
the house was one reed.
040:008 He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.
040:009 Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits;
and the posts of it, two cubits; and the porch of the gate
was toward the house.
040:010 The lodges of the gate eastward were three on this side,
and three on that side; they three were of one measure:
and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.
040:011 He measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits;
and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits;
040:012 and a border before the lodges, one cubit [on this side],
and a border, one cubit on that side; and the lodges,
six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.
040:013 He measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to
the roof of the other, a breadth of twenty-five cubits;
door against door.
040:014 He made also posts, sixty cubits; and the court [reached]
to the posts, round about the gate.
040:015 [From] the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront
of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.
040:016 There were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts
within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches;
and windows were round about inward; and on [each] post
were palm trees.
040:017 Then brought he me into the outer court; and behold, there were
chambers and a pavement, made for the court round about:
thirty chambers were on the pavement.
040:018 The pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable to
the length of the gates, even the lower pavement.
040:019 Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate
to the forefront of the inner court outside, one hundred cubits,
[both] on the east and on the north.
040:020 The gate of the outer court whose prospect is toward the north,
he measured the length of it and the breadth of it.
040:021 The lodges of it were three on this side and three on that side;
and the posts of it and the arches of it were after the measure
of the first gate: the length of it was fifty cubits,
and the breadth twenty-five cubits.
040:022 The windows of it, and the arches of it, and the palm trees
of it, were after the measure of the gate whose prospect
is toward the east; and they went up to it by seven steps;
and the arches of it were before them.
040:023 There was a gate to the inner court over against the [other] gate,
[both] on the north and on the east; and he measured from gate
to gate one hundred cubits.
040:024 He led me toward the south; and behold, a gate toward the south:
and he measured the posts of it and the arches of it according
to these measures.
040:025 There were windows in it and in the arches of it round about,
like those windows: the length was fifty cubits,
and the breadth twenty-five cubits.
040:026 There were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches of it
were before them; and it had palm trees, one on this side,
and another on that side, on the posts of it.
040:027 There was a gate to the inner court toward the south:
and he measured from gate to gate toward the south
a hundred cubits.
040:028 Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate:
and he measured the south gate according to these measures;
040:029 and the lodges of it, and the posts of it, and the arches of it,
according to these measures: and there were windows in it
and in the arches of it round about; it was fifty cubits long,
and twenty-five cubits broad.
040:030 There were arches round about, twenty-five cubits long,
and five cubits broad.
040:031 The arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees
were on the posts of it: and the ascent to it had eight steps.
040:032 He brought me into the inner court toward the east:
and he measured the gate according to these measures;
040:033 and the lodges of it, and the posts of it, and the arches of it,
according to these measures: and there were windows therein
and in the arches of it round about; it was fifty cubits long,
and twenty-five cubits broad.
040:034 The arches of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees
were on the posts of it, on this side, and on that side:
and the ascent to it had eight steps.
040:035 He brought me to the north gate: and he measured [it] according
to these measures;
040:036 the lodges of it, the posts of it, and the arches of it:
and there were windows therein round about; the length was
fifty cubits, and the breadth twenty-five cubits.
040:037 The posts of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees
were on the posts of it, on this side, and on that side: