1. You, human one, prophesy to Israel’s mountains and say, Hear the Lord’s word, mountains of Israel!
2. The Lord God proclaims: The enemy mocked you and said, "The ancient heights belong to us."
3. Therefore, prophesy and say, The Lord God proclaims: When the surviving nations pressed in and ravaged you from all around to lay claim to you, you became an object of the people’s slander and derision.
4. Hear the Lord God’s word, mountains of Israel! The Lord God proclaims to the mountains and the hills, the watercourses and the valleys, the desolate ruins and the abandoned cities that were contemptuously looted by the surviving nations all around you.
5. So now, says the Lord God, I will speak in my fiery passion against the surviving nations and against Edom, all those who gleefully and spitefully took my land for themselves as a possession only for plunder.
6. Prophesy concerning Israel’s fertile land, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, The Lord God proclaims: Because you endured the ridicule of the nations, my passion and fury lead me to speak.
7. So now the Lord God proclaims: I myself swear that the nations round about you will themselves suffer ridicule.
8. But you, mountains of Israel, will extend your branches and bear your fruit for my people Israel, because they will come home very soon.
9. Look, I’m here for you, and I will turn toward you, and you will be farmed and sown.
10. I will populate you with human beings, the whole house of Israel, all of them. The cities will be inhabited, the ruins rebuilt.
11. When I make people and animals increase on you, they will multiply and be fruitful. I will cause you to be inhabited as you were before. I will do more good for you than in the beginning, and you will know that I am the Lord.
12. I will let people walk through you, my people Israel! They will lay claim to you, you will be their inheritance, and you will no longer deprive them of anything.
13. The Lord God proclaims: Because people say, "You are a devourer of human beings" and "You are depriving your nation,"
14. therefore, you will no longer devour human beings or deprive your nation of anything. This is what the Lord God says.
15. You won’t have to listen anymore to the taunts of the nations or endure the scorn of the peoples. And you will no longer deprive your nation of anything. This is what the Lord God says.
16. The Lord’s word came to me: