Ezekiel 36:3

therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says lord LORD: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and ye are taken up in the lips o

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In The King James Version

Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:

In Context

2Thus says lord LORD: Because the enemy has said against you, Aha! and, The ancient high places are ours in possession,

4therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of lord LORD. Thus says lord LORD to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which have be

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:37And thou shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where LORD shall lead thee away.

Job 30:1But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

Psalms 35:25Let them not say in their heart, Aha, so would we have it. Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

Psalms 61:1Hear my cry, O God. Attend to my prayer.

Psalms 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are round about us.

Proverbs 1:12Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those who go down into the pit.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 36:2-16

God's Compassion for Israel. ( b. c. 587.) 1 Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord : 2 Thus saith the Lord God ; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession: 3 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God ; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips… Read the whole commentary →

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