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therefore as I live," declares the Lord GOD, "I will deal with you according to your anger and according to your envy which you displayed because of your hatred for them; so I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.

therefore prophesy and say, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: "For good reason they have made you desolate and harassed you from every side, so that you would become a possession of the rest of the nations; and you have been taken up in the talk and the rumor of the people."'"

therefore the Lord GOD says this: "Certainly in the fire of My jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who appropriated My land for themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and with contempt of soul, in order to make its pastureland plunder."

'But as for you, mountains of Israel, you will grow your branches and bear fruit for My people Israel; for they are about to come.

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

for that reason you will no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children,' declares the Lord GOD.

"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, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: "It is not for your sake, house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for My holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went.

"For I will take you from the nations, and gather you from all the lands; and I will bring you into your own land.

"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 in your own sight for your wrongdoings and your abominations.

"I am not doing this for your sake," declares the Lord GOD; "let that be known to you. Be ashamed and humiliated for your ways, house of Israel!"

'This is what the Lord GOD says: "This too I will let the house of Israel ask Me to do for them: I will increase their people like a flock.

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

"Now 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 put them together for yourself one to another into one stick, so 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 ready, and be prepared, you and all your contingents that are assembled around you, and be a guard for them.

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