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Ezekiel 36:2
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Blessing on Israel

1 “And you, son of man, prophesy to the amountains of Israel, and say, ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord!  
2 Thus says the Lord God: “Because athe enemy has said of you, ‘Aha! bThe ancient heights chave become our possession,’ ” ’  
3 therefore prophesy, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Because they made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, aand you are taken up by the lips of btalkers and slandered by the people”—  
4 therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God! Thus says the Lord God to the mountains, the hills, the1 rivers, the valleys, the desolate wastes, and the cities that have been forsaken, which abecame plunder and bmockery to the rest of the nations all around—  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Ezekiel 36:1-2

ISRAEL AVENGED OF HER FOES, AND RESTORED, FIRST TO INWARD HOLINESS, THEN TO OUTWARD PROSPERITY. (Eze. 36:1-38)

mountains of Israel—in contrast to "Mount Seir" of the previous prophecy. They are here personified; Israel's elevation is moral, not merely physical, as Edom's. Her hills are "the everlasting hills" of Jacob's prophecy (Genesis 49:26). "The enemy" (Edom, the singled-out representative of all God's foes), with a shout of exultation, "Aha!" had claimed, as the nearest kinsman of Israel (the brother of their father Esau), his vacated inheritance; as much as to say, the so-called "everlasting" inheritance of Israel and of the "hills," which typified the unmoved perpetuity of it (Psalms 125:1-2), has come to an end, in spite of the promise of God, and has become "ours" (compare Deuteronomy 32:13; Deuteronomy 33:15).




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