4. So, mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God. The Lord God speaks to the mountains, hills, ravines and valleys. And he speaks to the empty ruins and abandoned cities that have been robbed and laughed at by the other nations.
5. This is what the Lord God says: I have spoken in hot anger against the other nations. I have spoken against Edom. The Edomites took my land for themselves. They did this with joy and with hate in their hearts. They forced out the people and took their pastureland.’
6. So prophesy about the land of Israel. Say to the mountains, hills, ravines and valleys: ‘This is what the Lord God says: I speak in my jealous anger. This is because you have suffered the insults of the nations.
7. So this is what the Lord God says: I promise that the nations around you will also have to suffer insults.
8. “‘But you, mountains of Israel, you will grow branches and fruit for my people. My people will soon come home.
9. I am concerned about you. I am for you. You will be plowed, and seed will be planted in you.
10. I will multiply the people who live on you. All the people of Israel will come. The cities will have people living in them. The ruins will be rebuilt.
11. I will make the people and animals living on you increase in number. They will grow and be fruitful. You will have people living on you as you did before. I will make you better off than at the beginning. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
12. I will cause my people Israel to walk on you. Then they will take you, and you will belong to them. You will never again take their children away from them.
13. “‘This is what the Lord God says: People say about you: “You eat people and take children from your nation.”
14. You will not destroy people anymore. You will not make your nation stumble anymore, says the Lord God.
15. I will not make you listen to insults from the nations anymore. You will not suffer shame from them anymore, says the Lord God.’”
16. The Lord spoke his word to me again. He said:
17. “Human being, the nation of Israel was living in their own land. But they made it unclean by their ways and the things they did. Their ways were like a woman’s uncleanness in her time of monthly bleeding.
18. So I poured out my anger against them. I did it because of the murders they did in the land. And I did it because they made the land unclean with their idols.
19. I scattered them among the nations. And they were spread through all the countries. I punished them for how they lived and the things they did.