Study Desk

Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of the pasture with your feet? Is not it enough for you to drink the clear water? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet?

They will no longer be prey for the nations, and the beasts of the earth will not consume them. They will dwell securely, and no one will frighten them.

And I will raise up for them a garden of renown, and they will no longer be victims of famine in the land or bear the scorn of the nations.

But you, O mountains of Israel, will produce branches and bear fruit for My people Israel, for they will soon come home.

For behold, I am on your side; I will turn toward you, and you will be tilled and sown.

For this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Because people say to you, "You devour men and deprive your nation of its children,"

But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they had gone.

Therefore, tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: 'It is not for your sake that I will act, O house of Israel, but for My holy name, which you profaned among the nations to which you went.

For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and I will bring you back into your own land.

Then you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and abominations.

It is not for your sake that I will act, declares the Lord GOD-let it be known to you. Be ashamed and disgraced for your own ways, O house of Israel!'

This is what the Lord GOD says: 'Once again I will hear the plea of the house of Israel and do for them this: I will multiply their people like a flock.

Like the numerous flocks for sacrifices at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so the ruined cities will be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the LORD.'"

My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow My ordinances and keep and observe My statutes.

This is what the Lord GOD says: 'Are you the one of whom I have spoken in former days through My servants, the prophets of Israel, who for years prophesied in those times that I would bring you against them?

As for you, O son of man, prophesy against Gog and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.

You will fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.

Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out, kindle fires, and burn the weapons-the bucklers and shields, the bows and arrows, the clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them for fuel.

They will not gather wood from the countryside or cut it from the forests, for they will use the weapons for fuel. They will loot those who looted them and plunder those who plundered them, declares the Lord GOD.

For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.