Chapter 36

The Jews shall be reduced from captivity, ℣.13 their manners amended, ℣.16 which are enormous, ℣.22 by special grace of God, for the glory of his name: ℣.25 fulfilled by Christ's baptism.

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   And thou son of man, Prophesy concerning the mountains of Israel, and thou shalt say: Mountains of Israel hear ye the word of our Lord:

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   Thus saith our Lord God: For that the enemy hath said of you: Aha, the everlasting heights are given to us for an inheritance:

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   therefore prophesy, & say: Thus saith our Lord God: For that you have been desolate, & trodden down round about, & made an inheritance to the rest of the Gentiles, and have ascended upon the lip of the tongue, & the reproach of the people:

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   Therefore ye mountains of Israel hear the word of our Lord God: Thus saith our Lord God to the mountains, and hills, to the torrents, and valleys, & the deserts, and broken walls, and to the cities forsaken, which are spoiled, & scorned of the rest of the Nations round about.

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   Therefore thus saith our Lord God: Because in fire of my zeal I have spoken of the rest of the nations, & of all Idumea, which have given my land to themselves for an inheritance with joy, and with all their heart, and with the mind: and have cast it forth to waste it:

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   therefore prophesy concerning the ground of Israel, and thou shalt say to the mountains, and hills, to the hill-tops, & valleys: Thus saith our Lord God: Behold I have spoken in my zeal, & in my fury because you have sustained the confusion of the Gentiles.

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   Therefore thus saith our Lord God: I have lifted my hand, that the Gentiles which are round about you, they may bear their confusion.

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   But you o mountains of Israel may shoot forth your boughs, and bring forth your fruit to my people of Israel: for he is at hand to come.

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   Because lo I to you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be ploughed, and shall take seed.

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    And I will multiply in you men, and all the house of Israel. And the cities shall be inhabited, & the ruinous places shall be repaired.

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    And I will replenish you with men, and with beasts: and they shall be multiplied, and increase: and I will make you dwell as from the beginning, and will endue you with greater gifts, than you have had from the beginning: and you shall know that I am the Lord.

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    And I will bring men upon you, my people Israel, and they shall possess thee by inheritance: and thou shalt be for an inheritance to them, & thou shalt add no more to be without them.

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    Thus saith our Lord God: For that they say of you: A devourer of men thou art, and one that doest suffocate thy nation.

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    Therefore thou shalt eat men no more, and thy nation thou shalt kill no more, saith our Lord God:

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    neither will I make the confusion of the Gentiles, to be heard in thee any more, and the reproach of the people thou shalt not bear, & thy nation thou shalt lose no more, saith our Lord God.

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    And the word of our Lord was made to me, saying:

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    Son of man, the house of Israel dwelt in their ground, and polluted it in their ways, & in their studies, according to the uncleanness of a menstruous woman was their way made before me.

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    And I have poured out mine indignation upon them for the blood, which they have shed upon the land, & in their idols have polluted it.

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    And I have dispersed them into the Gentiles, & they are scattered into the lands: according to their ways, & their inventions have I judged them

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    And they went in to the Nations, unto which they entered, and have polluted my holy name, when it was said of them: This is the people of the Lord, and out of his land they are come forth.

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    And I have spared my holy name, which the house of Israel polluted among the Gentiles, to which they entered in.

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    Therefore thou shalt say to the house of Israel: Thus saith our Lord God, not for your sake will I do it, o house of Israel, but for my holy name which you have polluted in the Nations to which you entered.

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    And I will sanctify my great name, that is polluted among the Gentiles, which you have polluted in the midst of them: that the Gentiles may know that I am the Lord, saith our Lord of hosts, when I shall be sanctified in you before them.

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    For I will take you out of the Gentiles, & will gather you together out of all the lands, & will bring you into your land.

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    And I will pour out upon you clean water, and you shall be cleansed from all your contaminations, and from all your idols will I cleanse you.

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    And I will give you a new heart, and will put a new spirit in the midst of you: and will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and will give you a fleshy heart.

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    And I will put my spirit in the midst of you: and I will make that you walk in my precepts, and keep my judgements, and do them.

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    And you shall dwell in the land: which I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

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    And I will save you from all your contaminations: and I will call for corn, and will multiply it, and will not put famine upon you.

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    And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the offsprings of the field, that you bear no more the reproach of famine among the Gentiles.

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    And you shall remember your most wicked ways, & your studies not good: & your iniquities, & your wicked deeds shall displease you.

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    Not for you will I do it, saith our Lord God, be it known to you: be ye confounded, & ashamed upon your ways, o house of Israel.

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    Thus saith our Lord God: In the day that I shall cleanse you from all your iniquities, & shall make the cities to be inhabited, & shall repair the ruinous places.

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    & the desert land shall be tilled, which once was desolate in the eyes of every wayfaring man,

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    they shall say: This land untilled is become as a garden of pleasure: and the desert cities, and destitute and undermined, have sitten fenced.

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    And the Nations whatsoever shall be left round about you, shall know that I, the Lord have builded the destroyed things, & planted the untilled places, that I, the Lord have spoken, and done it.

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    Thus saith our Lord God: As yet in this shall the house of Israel find me, that I will do for them: I will multiply them as a flock of men,

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    as a holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in the solemnities thereof: So shall the desert cities be full of flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the Lord.