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therefore thus says the Lord God : I am speaking in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who, with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, took my land as their possession, because of its pasture, to plunder it.

Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, to the watercourses and valleys, Thus says the Lord God : I am speaking in my jealous wrath, because you have suffered the insults of the nations;

See now, I am for you; I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown;

and I will multiply human beings and animals upon you. They shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited as in your former times, and will do more good to you than ever before. Then you shall know that I am the Lord .

Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God : It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came.

I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them; and the nations shall know that I am the Lord , says the Lord God , when through you I display my holiness before their eyes.

Like the flock for sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed festivals, so shall the ruined towns be filled with flocks of people. Then they shall know that I am the Lord .

I will lay sinews on you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the Lord ."

Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God : I am going to open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people; and I will bring you back to the land of Israel.

And you shall know that I am the Lord , when I open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people.

say to them, Thus says the Lord God : I am about to take the stick of Joseph (which is in the hand of Ephraim) and the tribes of Israel associated with it; and I will put the stick of Judah upon it, and make them one stick, in order that they may be one in my hand.

and say: Thus says the Lord God : I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal;

So I will display my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they shall know that I am the Lord .

And you, mortal, prophesy against Gog, and say: Thus says the Lord God : I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal!

I will send fire on Magog and on those who live securely in the coastlands; and they shall know that I am the Lord .

My holy name I will make known among my people Israel; and I will not let my holy name be profaned any more; and the nations shall know that I am the Lord , the Holy One in Israel.

As for you, mortal, thus says the Lord God : Speak to the birds of every kind and to all the wild animals: Assemble and come, gather from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great sacrificial feast on the mountains of Israel, and you shall eat flesh and drink blood.

You shall eat fat until you are filled, and drink blood until you are drunk, at the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you.

The house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God, from that day forward.

Then they shall know that I am the Lord their God because I sent them into exile among the nations, and then gathered them into their own land. I will leave none of them behind;