1   And thou sonne of man, prophecie concerning the mountainnes of Israel, and thou shalt say: Mountainnes of Israel heare ye the word of our Lord:

2   Thus saith our Lord God: For that the enemie hath sayd of you: Aha, the euerlasting heightes are geuen to vs for an inheritante:

3   therfore prophecie, & say: Thus saith our Lord God: For that you haue bene desolate, and troden downe round about, and made an inheritance to the rest of the Gentils, and haue ascended ^notevpon the lippe of the tongue, & the reproche of the people:

4   therfore ye mountaines of Israel heare the word of our Lord God: Thus sayth our Lord God to the mountaines, and hilles, to the torrents, and valleis, & the deserts, and broken walleis, & to the cities forsaken which are spoiled, & scotned of the rest of the Nations round about.

5   Therfore thus saith our Lord God: Because in fyre of my zele I haue spoken of the rest of the nations, and of al Iduma, which haue geuen my land to themselues for an inheritance with ioy, and with al their hart, and with the minde: and haue cast it forth to waste it:

6   therfore prophecie concerning the ground of Israel, and thou shalt say to the montaines, & hilles, to the hiltoppes, and valleis: Thus saith our Lord God: Behold I haue spoken in my zele, & in my furie because you haue susteyned the confusion of the Gentiles.

7   Therfore thus sayth our Lord God: I haue lifted my hand, that the Gentiles which are round about you, they may beare their confusion.

8   But you ô mountaines of Israel may shoote forth your boughes, and bring forth your fruite to my people of Israel: for he is at hand to come.

9   Because loe I to you, and I wil turne to you, and you shal be ploughed, and shal take seede.

10   And I wil multiplie in you men, & al the house of Israel: and the cities shal be inhabited, and the ruinous places shal be repayred.

11   And I wil replenish you with men, and with beasts: and they shal be multiplied,

and increase: and I wil make you dwel as from the beginning, and wil endewe you with greater giftes, then you haue had from the beginning: and you shal know that I am the Lord.

12   And I wil bring men vpon you, my people Israel, and they shal possesse thee by inheritance: and thou shalt be for an inheritance to them, and thou shalt adde no more to be without them.

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

14   Therfore thou shalt eate men no more, and thy nation thou shalt kil no more, saith our Lord God:

15   neither wil I make the confusion of the Gentils, to be heard in thee anie more, and the reproch of the people thou shalt not beare, and thy nation thou shalt lose no more, saith our Lord God.

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

17   Sonne of man, the house of Israel dwelt in their ground, and polluted it in their wayes, and in their studies according to the vncleanes of a menstruous woman was their way made before me.

18   And I haue powred out mine indignation vpon them for the bloud, which they haue shed vpon the land, and in their idols haue polluted it.

19   And I haue dispersed them into the Gentils, and they are scattered into the landes: according to their wayes, and their inuentions haue I iudged them.

20   And they went in to the Nations, vnto which they entered, and ^note haue polluted my holie name, when it was said of them: This is the people of the Lord, and out of his land they are come forth.

21   And I haue spared my holie name, which the house of Israel polluted among the Gentiles, to which they entered in.

22   Therfore thou shalt say to the house of Israel: Thus saith our Lord God, not for your sake wil I doe it, ô house of Israel, but for my holie name which you haue polluted in the Nations to which you entered.

23   And I wil sanctifie my great name, that is polluted among the Gentiles, which you haue polluted in the middes of them: that the Gentils may know that I am the Lord, saith our Lord of hostes, when I shal be sanctified in you before them.

24   For I wil take you out of the Gentils, and wil gather you together out of al the landes, and wil bring you into your land.

25   And I wil powre out vpon you ^note cleane water, and you shal be clensed from al your contaminations, & from al your idols wil I clense you.

26   And I wil geue you a new hart, and wil put a new spirit in the middes of you: and wil take away the stonie hart out of

your flesh, and wil geue you a fleshie hart.

27   And I wil put my spirite in the middes of you: and I ^note wil make that you walke in my precepts, & keepe my iudgements, and doe them.

28   And you shal dwel in the land: which I gaue to your fathers, and you shal be my people, and I wil be your God.

29   And I wil saue you from al your contaminations: and I wil cal for corne, and wil multiplie it, and wil not put famine vpon you.

30   And I wil multiplie the fruite of the tree, and the ofsprings of the filde, that you beare no more the reproch of famine among the Gentils.

31   And you shal remember your most wicked wayes, and your studies not good: and your iniquities, and your wicked deedes shal displease you.

32   Not for you wil I doe it, saith our Lord God, be it knowne to you: be ye confounded, and ashamed vpon your wayes, ô house of Israel.

33   Thus saith our Lord God: In the day that I shal clense you from al your iniquities, and shal make the cities to be inhabited, and shal repayre the ruinous places,

34   and the desert land shal be tilled, which once was desolate in the eyes of euerie wayfaringman,

35   they shal say: This land vntilled is become as a garden of pleasure: and the desert cities, and destitute and vndermined, haue sitten fenced.

36   And the Nations whatsoeuer shal be left round about you, shal know that I the Lord haue builded the destroyed thinges, and planted the vntilled places, that I the Lord haue spoken, and done it.

37   Thus saith our Lord God: As yet in this shal the house of Israel finde me, that I wil doe for them: I wil multiplie them as a flocke of men,

38   as a holie flocke, as the flocke of Ierusalem in the solemnities therof: So shal the desert cities be ful of flockes of men: and they shal know that I am the Lord.

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