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Ezekiel 36:5-21 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

5. Because of this, thus says the Lord God: In the fire of my zeal, I have spoken about the remainder of the nations, and about all of Idumea, who have given my land to themselves, joyfully, as an inheritance, and with all the heart and mind, and who have cast it out, so that they may lay waste to it.

6. Therefore, prophesy over the soil of Israel, and you shall say to the mountains, and to the hills, to the ridges, and to the valleys: Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I have spoken in my zeal and in my fury, because you have endured the shame of the Gentiles.

7. Therefore, thus says the Lord God: I have lifted up my hand, so that the Gentiles, who are all around you, will themselves bear their shame.

8. But as for you, O mountains of Israel, spring forth your branches, and bear your fruit, to my people Israel. For they are close to their advent.

9. For behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you will be plowed, and you will receive seed.

10. And I will multiply men among you and among all the house of Israel. And the cities shall be inhabited, and the ruinous places shall be restored.

11. And I will fill you again with men and with cattle. And they will be multiplied, and they will increase. And I will cause you to live as from the beginning, and I will give you even greater gifts than those you had from the start. And you shall know that I am the Lord.

12. And I will lead men over you, over my people Israel, and they will possess you as an inheritance. And you shall be to them as an inheritance. And you shall no longer be permitted to be without them.

13. Thus says the Lord God: Because they are saying about you, 'You are a woman who devours men, and you are strangling your own nation,'

14. because of this, you shall no longer consume men, and you shall no longer harm your own nation, says the Lord God.

15. Neither will I permit men to discover in you the shame of the Gentiles any more. And you shall never again bear the reproach of the peoples. And you shall not send your people away any more, says the Lord God."

16. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

17. "Son of man, the house of Israel lived on their own soil, and they defiled it with their ways and with their intentions. Their way, in my sight, became like the uncleanness of a menstruous woman.

18. And so I poured out my indignation upon them, because of the blood which they shed upon the land, and because they defiled it with their idols.

19. And I dispersed them among the Gentiles, and they have been scattered among the lands. I have judged them according to their ways and their plans.

20. And when they walked among the Gentiles, to whom they had entered, they defiled my holy name, though it was being said about them: 'This is the people of the Lord,' and 'They went forth from his land.'

21. But I have spared my holy name, which the house of Israel has defiled among the Gentiles, to whom they entered.

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