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Then you will know that I, Yahweh, have heard all your contempt which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel saying, ‘They are laid desolate; they are given to us for food.'

"Now as for you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say, ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of Yahweh.

therefore prophesy and say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, "For good reason they have made you desolate and bruised you from every side, that you would become a possession of the rest of the nations, and you have been taken up in the speech of their tongue and the rumors of the people."'"

therefore thus says Lord Yahweh, "Surely in the fire of My jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave My land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted gladness and with scorn of soul, to drive it out for plunder."

But you, O mountains of Israel, you will put forth your branches and bear your fruit for My people Israel; for they will soon come.

For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you will be cultivated and sown.

Therefore I poured out My wrath on them for the blood which they had shed on the land, because they had defiled it with their idols.

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

"Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, "It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for My holy name, which you have profaned among the nations, to which you have come.

Moreover, I will save you from all your uncleanness; and I will call for the grain and multiply it, and I will not bring a famine on you.

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

I am not doing this for your sake," declares Lord Yahweh, "let it be known to you. Be ashamed and feel dishonor for your ways, O house of Israel!"

‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, "This also I will let the house of Israel inquire of Me to do for them: I will increase their men like a flock.

Like the flock for holy offerings, like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed times, so will the waste cities be filled with flocks of men. Then they will know that I am Yahweh."'"

"Now as for you, son of man, take for yourself one stick and write on it, ‘For Judah and for the sons of Israel, his companions'; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.'

Then draw them together for yourself one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.

and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king for all of them; and they will no longer be two nations and no longer be divided into two kingdoms.

"Be prepared, and prepare yourself, you and all your assembly that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them.

‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, "Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days by the hand of My slaves the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for many years that I would bring you against them?

And I will call for a sword against him on all My mountains," declares Lord Yahweh. "Every man's sword will be against his brother.