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"Adonai Elohim says, ‘When the day comes for me to cleanse you from all your guilt, I will cause the cities to be inhabited and the ruins to be rebuilt.

The land that was desolate will be tilled, whereas formerly it lay desolate for all passing by to see.

"Adonai Elohim says, ‘In addition, I will let the house of Isra'el pray to me to do this for them: to increase their numbers like sheep —

like flocks of sheep for sacrifices, like the flocks of sheep in Yerushalayim at its designated times, in this degree will the ruined cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am Adonai .'"

"You, human being, take one stick and write on it, ‘For Y'hudah and those joined with him [among] the people of Isra'el.' Next, take another stick and write on it, ‘For Yosef, the stick of Efrayim, and all the house of Isra'el who are joined with him.'

I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Isra'el; and one king will be king for all of them. They will no longer be two nations, and they will never again be divided into two kingdoms.

After many days have passed, you will be mustered for service; in later years you will invade the land which has been brought back from the sword, gathered out of many peoples, the mountains of Isra'el. They had been lying in ruins for a long time, but now Isra'el has been extracted from the peoples and all of them are living there securely.

"Adonai Elohim says: ‘I spoke of you long ago through my servants the prophets of Isra'el. Back then, they prophesied for many years that I would have you invade them.

You will fall in the open field, for I have spoken,' says Adonai Elohim .

"‘Those living in Isra'el's cities will go out and set fire to the weapons, to use as fuel — the shields, breastplates, bows, arrows, clubs and spears; they will use them for fire seven years;

so that they will not need to gather wood from the fields or cut down any from the forests; because they will use the weapons for fire. Thus they will plunder those who plundered them and rob those who robbed them,' says Adonai Elohim .

"‘When that day comes, I will give Gog a place there in Isra'el for graves, the Travelers' Valley, east of the sea; and it will block the travelers' passage. There they will bury Gog and all his horde, and they will rename it the Valley of Hamon-Gog [horde of Gog].

Yes, all the people of the land will be burying them; they will become famous for it. It will be a day for me to be glorified,' says Adonai Elohim .

‘They will then pick men for the continual duty of going through the land and burying with the travelers the corpses still lying out on the ground, in order to cleanse it; they will begin their search after the seven months.

"As for you, human, Adonai Elohim says that you are to speak to all kinds of birds and to every wild animal as follows: ‘Assemble yourselves and come, gather yourselves from all around for the sacrifice I am preparing for you, a great sacrifice on the mountains of Isra'el, where you can eat flesh and drink blood!

You will eat fat till you are gorged and drink blood till you are drunk at the sacrifice I have prepared for you.

"Therefore Adonai Elohim says this: ‘Now I will restore the fortunes of Ya‘akov and have compassion on the entire house of Isra'el, and I will be jealous for my holy name.

and I will no longer hide my face from them, for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Isra'el,' says Adonai Elohim ."

Then he brought me into the outer courtyard. There I saw rooms and paved mosaic flooring made for the courtyard all around its perimeter, and thirty rooms facing the flooring.

He measured at 175 feet the distance from inside this lower gate that faced east to the outside of the inner courtyard, and he did the same for the gate that faced north.