Ezekiel 36

Ezekiel 36:3

And ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people.

And your name is scornfully taken up in the lips of your busy and insulting enemies, and ye are made a byword and reproach of the people.

Ezekiel 36:7

I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.

I have sworn by myself, Surely the heathen, that are round about you, shall be put to that shame and confusion, wherein they have rejoiced to see you and to insult over you.

Ezekiel 36:13

Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations.

Because they say unto you, Thou, O land, art fatal to thine inhabitants, and hast consumed them in divers successions, and hast made away with the nations that dwell in thee.

Ezekiel 36:17

Their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.

Their continual practice was as foul and odious to me, as can be expressed by any legal uncleanness.

Ezekiel 36:20

They profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD and are gone forth out of his land.

They caused my holy name to be scorned and evil spoken of, in that it was said of these so wicked and lewd persons, Lo, these are the select people of the Lord, and those that were inhabitants of his holy land.

Ezekiel 36:23

When I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

When I shall glorify myself, by working your deliverance, and your apparent reformation, before their eyes.

Ezekiel 36:26

And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

I will take away your perverse and rebellious disposition; and I will give you a tenderness of heart, and an aptness to be wrought upon by the motions of my spirit.

Ezekiel 36:37

I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.

I will so do this, that yet I will be sought and sued to by the house of Israel, for this blessing upon them; and then I will give such an increase to the men, as I am wont to give to their fruitful flocks.

Ezekiel 36:38

As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men.

As Jerusalem, in her holy feasts, is filled with whole flocks and herds of those cattle, that are brought up thither for sacrifice; so shall all the waste cities of Israel be filled with flocks of men.