Eze 36:8-16, 37:21-28 | ESV | STEP | But you , O mountains of Israel , shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to my people Israel , for they will soon come home.

8 “But you, O mountains of Israel, ^ashall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to my people Israel, for ^bthey will soon come home. 9 For ^cbehold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and ^dyou shall be tilled and sown. 10 And ^eI will multiply people on you, the whole house of Israel, all of it. ^fThe cities shall be inhabited and the waste places rebuilt. 11 And I will multiply on you ^gman and beast, and ^hthey shall multiply and be fruitful. And I will cause you to be inhabited as in ⁱyour former times, and ^jwill do more good to you than ever before. ^kThen you will know that I am the Lord. 12 I will let people walk on you, even my people Israel. ^lAnd they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no longer ^mbereave them of children. 13 Thus says the Lord God: Because they say to you, ⁿ‘You devour people, and you bereave your nation of children,’ 14 therefore you shall no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the Lord God. 15 And I will not let you hear anymore ^othe reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord God.”

The Lord’s Concern for His Holy Name

16 The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 37:21-28

21 then say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, ^pI will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and ^qbring them to their own land. 22 And ^rI will make them one nation in the land, on ^sthe mountains of Israel. And ^tone king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer ^utwo nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms. 23 ^vThey shall not ^wdefile themselves anymore ^xwith their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But ^yI will save them from all the backslidings ^{▼▼Many Hebrew manuscripts; other Hebrew manuscripts dwellings} in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and ^aathey shall be my people, and I will be their God.

24 “My servant ^abDavid ^acshall be king over them, and they shall all have ^adone shepherd. ^aeThey shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes. 25 ^afThey shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children’s children shall dwell there ^agforever, and David my servant shall be their prince ^ahforever. 26 ^aiI will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be ^ajan everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land ^{▼▼Hebrew lacks in their land} and ^almultiply them, and will ^amset my sanctuary in their midst forevermore. 27 ^anMy dwelling place shall be with them, ^aoand I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 28 Then ^apthe nations will know that ^aqI am the Lord who sanctifies Israel, when ^army sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.”