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Book of Ezekiel, Chapter 36

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Ezekiel 36 NASB - New American Standard BibleEzekiel 36 NASB - New American Standard Bible

Chapter 36 of Ezekiel—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

  1. ¶ “And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say, ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD.
  2. Thus says the Lord [a]GOD, “Because the enemy has spoken against you, ‘Aha!’ and, ‘The everlasting [b]1heights have become our possession,’
  3. therefore prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “[c]For good reason they have made you 2desolate and crushed you from every side, that you would become a possession of the rest of the nations and you have been taken up in the [d]3talk and the whispering of the people.”’”
  4. Therefore, O 4mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the forsaken cities which have become a 5prey and a derision to the rest of the nations which are round about,
  5. therefore thus says the Lord GOD, “Surely in the fire of My 6jealousy I have spoken against the 7rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who [e]appropriated My land for themselves as a possession with wholehearted 8joy and with scorn of soul, to drive it out for a prey.”
  6. Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, “Thus says the Lord GOD, ‘Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and in My wrath because you have 9endured the insults of the nations.’
  7. Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, ‘I have [f]sworn that surely the nations which are around you will themselves endure their insults.
  8. But you, O mountains of Israel, you will 10put forth your branches and bear your fruit for My people Israel; for they will soon come.
  9. For, behold, I am for you, and I will 11turn to you, and you will be 12cultivated and sown.
  10. I will multiply men on you, 13all the house of Israel, all of it; and the 14cities will be inhabited and the waste places will be rebuilt.
  11. I will multiply on you man and beast; and they will increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited as you were 15formerly and will [g]treat you 16better than at the first. Thus you will know that I am the LORD.
  12. Yes, I will cause 17men—My people Israel—to walk on you and possess you, so that you will become their 18inheritance and never again 19bereave them of children.’
  13. ¶ “Thus says the Lord GOD, ‘Because they say to you, “You are a 20devourer of men and have bereaved your [h]nation of children,”
  14. therefore you will no longer devour men and no longer bereave your nation of children,’ declares the Lord GOD.
  15. “I will not let you hear 21insults from the nations anymore, nor will you bear 22disgrace from the peoples any longer, nor will you cause your nation to 23stumble any longer,” declares the Lord GOD.’”
  16. ¶ Then the word of the LORD came to me saying,
  17. “Son of man, when the house of Israel was living in their own land, they 24defiled it by their ways and their deeds; their way before Me was like 25the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.
  18. Therefore I 26poured out My wrath on them for the blood which they had shed on the land, because they had defiled it with their idols.
  19. Also I 27scattered them among the nations and they were dispersed throughout the lands. 28According to their ways and their deeds I judged them.
  20. When they came to the nations where they went, they 29profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, ‘These are the 30people of the LORD; yet they have come out of His land.’
  21. But I had [i]concern for My 31holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went.
  22. ¶ “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “It is 32not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for My holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went.
  23. I will 33vindicate the holiness of My great name which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst. Then the 34nations will know that I am the LORD,” declares the Lord GOD, “when I prove Myself holy among you in their sight.
  24. For I will 35take you from the nations, gather you from all the lands and bring you into your own land.
  25. Then I will 36sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your 37filthiness and from all your 38idols.
  26. Moreover, I will give you a 39new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the 40heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
  27. I will 41put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances.
  28. You will live in the land that I gave to your forefathers; so you will be 42My people, and I will be your God.
  29. Moreover, I will save you from all your uncleanness; and I will call for the grain and multiply it, and I 43will not [j]bring a famine on you.
  30. I will 44multiply the fruit of the tree and the produce of the field, so that you will not receive again the disgrace of famine among the nations.
  31. Then you will 45remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and your abominations.
  32. I am not doing this 46for your sake,” declares the Lord GOD, “let it be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel!”
  33. ¶ ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the 47cities to be inhabited, and the 48waste places will be rebuilt.
  34. The desolate land will be cultivated instead of being a desolation in the sight of everyone who passes by.
  35. They will say, ‘This desolate land has become like the 49garden of Eden; and the waste, desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.’
  36. Then the nations that are left round about you will know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt the ruined places and planted that which was desolate; I, the LORD, have spoken and 50will do it.”
  37. ¶ ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “This also I will let the house of Israel ask Me to do for them: I will increase their men like a flock.
  38. Like the 51flock [k]for sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so will the waste cities be filled with 52flocks of men. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”’”

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch
  2. ^ Heb Bamoth
  3. ^ Lit Because; or By the cause
  4. ^ Lit lip of the tongue
  5. ^ Lit gave
  6. ^ Lit lifted up My hand
  7. ^ Lit cause good
  8. ^ Or nations, and so throughout the ch
  9. ^ Lit compassion
  10. ^ Lit put
  11. ^ Lit of holy things

REFERENCES

  1. ^ De 32:13; Ps 78:69; Is 58:14; Hab 3:19
  2. ^ Je 2:15
  3. ^ Ps 44:13, 14; Je 18:16; Eze 35:13
  4. ^ De 11:11; Eze 36:1, 6, 8
  5. ^ Eze 34:8, 28
  6. ^ Eze 5:13; 36:6; 38:19
  7. ^ Je 25:9, 15-29; Eze 36:3
  8. ^ Je 50:11; Eze 35:15; Mc 7:8
  9. ^ Ps 74:10; 123:3, 4; Eze 34:29
  10. ^ Is 4:2; 27:6; Eze 17:23; 34:26-29
  11. ^ Le 26:9
  12. ^ Eze 28:26; 34:14; 36:34
  13. ^ Is 27:6; 49:17-23; Eze 37:21, 22
  14. ^ Je 31:27, 28; 33:12; Eze 36:33
  15. ^ Je 30:18; Eze 16:55; Mc 7:14
  16. ^ Jb 42:12; Is 51:3
  17. ^ Eze 34:13, 14
  18. ^ Eze 47:14
  19. ^ Je 15:7; Eze 22:12, 27
  20. ^ Nu 13:32
  21. ^ Is 60:14; Eze 34:29; 36:7
  22. ^ Ps 89:50; Is 54:4; Eze 22:4
  23. ^ Is 63:13; Je 13:16; 18:15
  24. ^ Je 2:7
  25. ^ Le 15:19
  26. ^ 2Ch 34:21, 25; La 2:4; 4:11; Eze 22:20, 22
  27. ^ De 28:64; Eze 5:12; 22:15; Am 9:9
  28. ^ Eze 24:14; 39:24; Ro 2:6
  29. ^ Is 52:5; Eze 12:16; Ro 2:24
  30. ^ Je 33:24
  31. ^ Ps 74:18; Is 48:9; Eze 20:44
  32. ^ De 7:7, 8; 9:5, 6; Eze 36:32
  33. ^ Is 5:16; Eze 20:41; 38:23; 39:7, 25
  34. ^ Ps 102:15; 126:2
  35. ^ Is 43:5, 6; Eze 34:13; 37:21
  36. ^ Nu 19:17-19; Ps 51:7; Ti 3:5, 6; Heb 9:13, 19; 10:22
  37. ^ Is 4:4; Zc 13:1
  38. ^ Is 2:18, 20; Ho 14:3, 8
  39. ^ Ps 51:10; Eze 11:19; 18:31; Jn 3:3, 5; 2Co 5:17
  40. ^ Eze 11:19; Zc 7:12
  41. ^ Is 44:3; 59:21; Eze 37:14; 39:29; Jl 2:28, 29
  42. ^ Eze 14:11; 37:23, 27
  43. ^ Eze 34:27, 29; Ho 2:21-23
  44. ^ Le 26:4; Eze 34:27
  45. ^ Eze 16:61-63; 20:43
  46. ^ De 9:5
  47. ^ Eze 36:10; Zc 8:7, 8
  48. ^ Is 58:12
  49. ^ Is 51:3; Eze 31:9; Jl 2:3
  50. ^ Eze 17:24; 22:14; 37:14; Ho 14:4-9
  51. ^ 1Ki 8:63; 2Ch 35:7-9; Jn 2:14
  52. ^ Ps 74:1; 100:3; Je 23:1; Jn 10:7, 9, 16

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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