2. that I, the Lord God, am saying:Your enemies sneered and said that you mountains belonged to them.
3. They ruined and crushed you from every side, and foreign nations captured and made fun of you.
4. So all you mountains and hills, streams and valleys, listen to what I will do. Your towns may now lie in ruins, and nations may laugh and insult you.
5. But in my fierce anger, I will turn against those nations, and especially the Edomites, because they laughed at you the loudest and took over your pasture lands.
6. You have suffered long enough, and, I, the Lord God, am very angry! Nations have insulted you,
7. so I will now insult and disgrace them. That is my solemn promise.
8. Trees will grow on you mountains of Israel and produce fruit for my people, because they will soon come home.
9. I will take care of you by ploughing your soil and planting crops on your fertile slopes.
14-15. But I, the Lord, promise that you won't hear other nations laugh and sneer at you ever again. From now on, you will always produce plenty of food for your people. I, the Lord God, have spoken.
16. The Lord said:
17. Ezekiel, son of man, when the people of Israel were living in their own country, they made the land unclean by the way they behaved, just as a woman's monthly period makes her unclean.
18. They committed murders and worshipped idols, which made the land even worse. So in my anger, I punished my people
19. and scattered them throughout the nations, just as they deserved.
20. Wherever they went, my name was disgraced, because foreigners insulted my people by saying I had forced them out of their own land.
21. I care what those foreigners think of me,
22. so tell the Israelites that I am saying:You have disgraced my holy name among the nations where you now live. So you don't deserve what I'm going to do for you. I will lead you home to bring honour to my name
23. and to show foreign nations that I am holy. Then they will know that I am the Lord God. I have spoken.
24. I will gather you from the foreign nations and bring you home.