6. Therefore, prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: This is what the Lord God says: Look, I speak in My burning zeal because you have endured the insults of the nations.
7. Therefore this is what the Lord God says: I swear that the nations all around you will endure their own insults.
8. “You, mountains of Israel, will produce your branches and bear your fruit for My people Israel, since their arrival is near.
9. Look! I am on your side; I will turn toward you, and you will be tilled and sown.
10. I will fill you with people, with the whole house of Israel in its entirety. The cities will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.
11. I will fill you with people and animals, and they will increase and be fruitful. I will make you inhabited as you once were and make you better off than you were before. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
12. I will cause people, My people Israel, to walk on you; they will possess you, and you will be their inheritance. You will no longer deprive them of their children.
13. “This is what the Lord God says: Because people are saying to you, ‘You devour men and deprive your nation of children,’
14. therefore, you will no longer devour men and deprive your nation of children.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.
15. “I will no longer allow the insults of the nations to be heard against you, and you will not have to endure the reproach of the peoples anymore; you will no longer cause your nation to stumble.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.
16. The word of the Lord came to me: