1 E tu, ó filho do homem, profetiza aos montes de Israel, e dize: Montes de Israel, ouvi a palavra do SENHOR.
2 Assim diz o Senhor DEUS: Pois que disse o inimigo contra vós: Ah! ah! até as alturas eternas serão nossa herança;
3 Portanto, profetiza, e dize: Assim diz o Senhor DEUS: Porquanto vos assolaram e devoraram de todos os lados, para que ficásseis feitos herança do restante dos gentios, e tendes andado em lábios paroleiros, e em infâmia do povo,
4 Portanto, ouvi, ó montes de Israel, a palavra do Senhor DEUS: Assim diz o Senhor DEUS aos montes e aos outeiros, aos rios e aos vales, aos lugares assolados e solitários, e às cidades desamparadas que se tornaram em rapina e em escárnio para o restante dos gentios que lhes estão em redor;
5 Portanto, assim diz o Senhor DEUS: Certamente no fogo do meu zelo falei contra o restante dos gentios, e contra todo o Edom, que se apropriaram da minha terra, com toda a alegria de seu coração, e com menosprezo da alma, para a lançarem fora à rapina.
6 Portanto, profetiza sobre a terra de Israel, e dize aos montes, e aos outeiros, aos rios e aos vales: Assim diz o Senhor DEUS: Eis que falei no meu zelo e no meu furor, porque levastes sobre vós o opróbrio dos gentios.
7 Portanto, assim diz o Senhor DEUS: Eu levantei a minha mão, para que os gentios, que estão ao redor de vós, levem o seu opróbrio.
8 Mas vós, ó montes de Israel, produzireis os vossos ramos, e dareis o vosso fruto para o meu povo de Israel; porque estão prestes a vir.
9 Porque eis que eu estou convosco, e eu me voltarei para vós, e sereis lavrados e semeados.
10 E multiplicarei homens sobre vós, a toda a casa de Israel, a toda ela; e as cidades serão habitadas, e os lugares devastados serão edificados.
11 E multiplicarei homens e animais sobre vós, e eles se multiplicarão, e frutificarão. E farei com que sejais habitados como dantes e vos tratarei melhor que nos vossos princípios; e sabereis que eu sou o Senhor.
12 E farei andar sobre vós homens, o meu povo de Israel; eles te possuirão, e serás a sua herança, e nunca mais os desfilharás.
13 Assim diz o Senhor DEUS: Porquanto vos dizem: Tu és uma terra que devora os homens, e és uma terra que desfilha as suas nações;
14 Por isso tu não devorarás mais os homens, nem desfilharás mais as tuas nações, diz o Senhor DEUS.
15 E farei que nunca mais tu ouças a afronta dos gentios; nem levarás mais sobre ti o opróbrio das gentes, nem mais desfilharás a tua nação, diz o Senhor DEUS.
16 E veio a mim a palavra do Senhor, dizendo:
17 Filho do homem, quando a casa de Israel habitava na sua terra, então a contaminaram com os seus caminhos e com as suas ações. Como a imundícia de uma mulher em sua separação, tal era o seu caminho perante o meu rosto.
18 Derramei, pois, o meu furor sobre eles, por causa do sangue que derramaram sobre a terra, e dos seus ídolos, com que a contaminaram.
19 E espalhei-os entre os gentios, e foram dispersos pelas terras; conforme os seus caminhos, e conforme os seus feitos, eu os julguei.
20 E, chegando aos gentios para onde foram, profanaram o meu santo nome, porquanto se dizia deles: Estes são o povo do Senhor, e saíram da sua terra.
21 Mas eu os poupei por amor do meu santo nome, que a casa de Israel profanou entre os gentios para onde foi.
22 Dize portanto à casa de Israel: Assim diz o Senhor DEUS: Não é por respeito a vós que eu faço isto, ó casa de Israel, mas pelo meu santo nome, que profanastes entre as nações para onde fostes.
23 E eu santificarei o meu grande nome, que foi profanado entre os gentios, o qual profanastes no meio deles; e os gentios saberão que eu sou o SENHOR, diz o Senhor DEUS, quando eu for santificado aos seus olhos.
24 E vos tomarei dentre os gentios, e vos congregarei de todas as terras, e vos trarei para a vossa terra.
25 Então aspergirei água pura sobre vós, e ficareis purificados; de todas as vossas imundícias e de todos os vossos ídolos vos purificarei.
26 E dar-vos-ei um coração novo, e porei dentro de vós um espírito novo; e tirarei da vossa carne o coração de pedra, e vos darei um coração de carne.
27 E porei dentro de vós o meu Espírito, e farei que andeis nos meus estatutos, e guardeis os meus juízos, e os observeis.
28 E habitareis na terra que eu dei a vossos pais e vós sereis o meu povo, e eu serei o vosso Deus.
29 E livrar-vos-ei de todas as vossas imundícias; e chamarei o trigo, e o multiplicarei, e não trarei fome sobre vós.
30 E multiplicarei o fruto das árvores, e a novidade do campo, para que nunca mais recebais o opróbrio da fome entre os gentios.
31 Então vos lembrareis dos vossos maus caminhos, e dos vossos feitos, que não foram bons; e tereis nojo em vós mesmos das vossas iniqüidades e das vossas abominações.
32 Não é por amor de vós que eu faço isto, diz o Senhor DEUS; notório vos seja; envergonhai-vos, e confundi-vos por causa dos vossos caminhos, ó casa de Israel.
33 Assim diz o Senhor DEUS: No dia em que eu vos purificar de todas as vossas iniqüidades, então farei com que sejam habitadas as cidades e sejam edificados os lugares devastados.
34 E a terra assolada será lavrada, em lugar de estar assolada aos olhos de todos os que passavam.
35 E dirão: Esta terra assolada ficou como jardim do Éden: e as cidades solitárias, e assoladas, e destruídas, estão fortalecidas e habitadas.
36 Então saberão os gentios, que tiverem ficado ao redor de vós, que eu, o Senhor, tenho reedificado as cidades destruídas, e plantado o que estava devastado. Eu, o Senhor, o disse e o farei.
37 Assim diz o Senhor DEUS: Ainda por isso serei solicitado pela casa de Israel, que lho faça; multiplicar-lhes-ei os homens, como a um rebanho.
38 Como o rebanho santificado, como o rebanho de Jerusalém nas suas solenidades, assim as cidades desertas se encherão de rebanhos de homens; e saberão que eu sou o Senhor.
1 And you, son of man, be a prophet about the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord:
2 This is what the Lord has said: Because your hater has said against you, Aha! and, The old waste places are our heritage, we have taken them:
3 For this cause be a prophet, and say, This is what the Lord has said: Because, even because they have been glad over you and put you to shame on every side, because you have become a heritage for the rest of the nations, and you are taken up on the lips of talkers and in the evil talk of the people:
4 For this reason, you mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord; this is what the Lord has said to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, to the unpeopled wastes and to the towns where no one is living, from which the goods have been taken and which have been put to shame by the rest of the nations who are round about:
5 For this cause the Lord has said: Truly, in the heat of my bitter feeling I have said things against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who have taken my land as a heritage for themselves with the joy of all their heart, and with bitter envy of soul have made attacks on it:
6 For this cause be a prophet about the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, This is what the Lord has said: Truly, in my bitter feeling and in my wrath I have said these things, because you have undergone the shame of the nations:
7 For this cause the Lord has said, See, I have taken an oath that the nations which are round about you are themselves to undergo the shame which they have put on you.
8 But you, O mountains of Israel, will put out your branches and give your fruit to my people Israel; for they are ready to come.
9 For truly I am for you, and I will be turned to you, and you will be ploughed and planted:
10 And I will let your numbers be increased, all the children of Israel, even all of them: and the towns will be peopled and the waste places will have buildings;
11 Man and beast will be increased in you, and they will have offspring and be fertile: I will make you thickly peopled as you were before, and will do more for you than at the first: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
12 Yes, I will have you walked on by the feet of men, even my people Israel; they will have you for a heritage and you will be theirs, and never again will you take their children from them.
13 This is what the Lord has said: Because they say to you, You, O land, are the destruction of men, causing loss of children to your nation;
14 For this reason you will no longer take the lives of men and will never again be the cause of loss of children to your nation, says the Lord.
15 And I will not let the shaming of the nations come to your ears, and no longer will you be looked down on by the peoples, says the Lord.
16 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
17 Son of man, when the children of Israel were living in their land, they made it unclean by their way and their acts: their way before me was as when a woman is unclean at the time when she is kept separate.
18 So I let loose my wrath on them because of those whom they had violently put to death in the land, and because they had made it unclean with their images:
19 And I sent them in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries: I was their judge, rewarding them for their way and their acts.
20 And when they came among the nations, wherever they went, they made my holy name unclean, when it was said of them, These are the people of the Lord who have gone out from his land.
21 But I had pity for my holy name which the children of Israel had made unclean wherever they went.
22 For this cause say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: I am doing this, not because of you, O children of Israel, but because of my holy name, which you have made unclean among the nations wherever you went.
23 And I will make holy my great name which has been made unclean among the nations, which you have made unclean among them; and it will be clear to the nations that I am the Lord, says the Lord, when I make myself holy in you before their eyes.
24 For I will take you out from among the nations, and get you together from all the countries, and take you into your land.
25 And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.
26 And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you: I will take away the heart of stone from your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh.
27 And I will put my spirit in you, causing you to be guided by my rules, and you will keep my orders and do them.
28 So that you may go on living in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you will be to me a people, and I will be to you a God.
29 And I will make you free from all your unclean ways: and at my voice the grain will come up and be increased, and I will not let you be short of food.
30 And I will make the tree give more fruit and the field fuller produce, and no longer will you be shamed among the nations for need of food.
31 And at the memory of your evil ways and your wrongdoings, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of your evil-doings and your disgusting ways, O children of Israel.
32 Not because of you am I doing it, says the Lord; let it be clear to you, and be shamed and made low because of your ways, O children of Israel.
33 This is what the Lord has said: In the day when I make you clean from all your evil-doings I will let the towns be peopled and there will be building on the waste places.
34 And the land which was waste will be farmed, in place of being a waste in the eyes of everyone who went by.
35 And they will say, This land which was waste has become like the garden of Eden; and the towns which were unpeopled and wasted and pulled down are walled and peopled.
36 Then the rest of the nations round about you will be certain that I the Lord am the builder of the places which were pulled down and the planter of that which was waste: I the Lord have said it, and I will do it.
37 This is what the Lord has said: The children of Israel will again make prayer to me for this, that I may do it for them; I will make them increased with men like a flock.
38 Like sheep for the offerings, like the sheep of Jerusalem at her fixed feasts, so the unpeopled towns will be made full of men: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.