Ezekiel 36:2-4

Lexham English Bible

² thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Because the enemy said concerning you, ‘Ah, and^[a] the ancient high places will be to us as a possession!’”’ ³ Therefore prophesy, and you must say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Because indeed^[b] when you were desolate,^[c] then they crushed you from all around, so that you became a possession to the remainder^[d] of the nations, and you became a byword and object of slander for the people.”^{[e] 4} Therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh; thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the river channels and to the valleys and to the ruins that are desolate and to the cities that are abandoned and that have become as plunder and as scorn for the remainder^[f] of the nations that are from all around.