17And as for you, My flock, thus said the Lord GOD: I am going to judge between one animal and another.
To the rams and the bucks: 18Is it not enough for you to graze on choice grazing ground, but you must also trample with your feet what is left from your grazing? And is it not enough for you to drink d-clear water,-d but you must also muddy with your feet what is left? 19And must My flock graze on what your feet have trampled and drink what your feet have muddied? 20Assuredly, thus said the Lord GOD to them: Here am I, I am going to decide between the stout animals and the lean. 21Because you pushed with flank and shoulder against the feeble ones and butted them with your horns until you scattered them abroad, 22I will rescue My flock and they shall no longer be a spoil. I will decide between one animal and another.
23Then I will appoint a single shepherd over them to tend them—My servant David. He shall tend them, he shall be a shepherd to them. 24I the LORD will be their God, and My servant David shall be a ruler among them—I the LORD have spoken. 25And I will grant them a covenant of friendship. I will banish vicious beasts from their land, and they shall live secure in the wasteland, they shall even sleep in the woodland. 26I will make e-these and the environs of My hill-e a blessing: I will send down the rain in its season, rains that bring blessing. 27The trees of the field shall yield their fruit and the land shall yield its produce. [My people] shall continue secure on its own soil. They shall know that I am the LORD when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from those who enslave them. 28They shall no longer be a spoil for the nations, and the beasts of the earth shall not devour them; they shall dwell secure and untroubled. 29I shall establish for them e-a planting of renown;-e they shall no more be carried off by famine, and they shall not have to bear again the taunts of the nations.f 30They shall know that I the LORD their God am with them and they, the House of Israel, are My people—declares the Lord GOD.
31For you, My flock, flock that I tend, are men; and I am your God—declares the Lord GOD.
35 The word of the LORD came to me: 2O mortal, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it. 3Say to it: Thus said the Lord GOD: I am going to deal with you, Mount Seir: I will stretch out My hand against you and make you an utter waste. 4I will turn your towns into ruins, and you shall be a desolation; then you shall know that I am the LORD. 5Because you harbored an ancient hatred and handed the people of Israel over to the sword in their time of calamity, the time set for their punishment—6assuredly, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, a-I will doom you with blood; blood shall pursue you; I swear that, for your bloodthirsty hatred, blood shall pursue you.-a 7I will make Mount Seir an utter waste, and I will keep all passersby away from it. 8I will cover its mountains with the slain; men slain by the sword shall lie on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your watercourses. 9I will make you a desolation for all time; your towns shall never be inhabited. And you shall know that I am the LORD.
10Because you thought “The two nations and the two lands shall be mine and we shall possess them”—b-although the LORD was there-b—11assuredly, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will act with the same anger and passion that you acted with in your hatred of them. And I will make Myself known through them when I judge you. 12You shall know that I the LORD have heard all the taunts you uttered against the hills of Israel: “They have been laid waste; they have been given to us as prey.” 13And you spoke arrogantly against Me and c-multiplied your words-c against Me: I have heard it.
14Thus said the LORD God: When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you a desolation. 15As you rejoiced when the heritage of the House of Israel was laid waste, so will I treat you: the hill country of Seir and the whole of Edom, all of it, shall be laid waste. And they shall know that I am the LORD.
36 And you, O mortal, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say: O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD:
2Thus said the Lord GOD: Because the enemy gloated over you, “Aha! Those ancient heights have become our possession!” 3therefore prophesy, and say: Thus said the Lord GOD: Just because a-they eagerly lusted to see you become a possession of the other nations round about, so that you have become the butt of gossip in every language and of the jibes from every people-a—4truly, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus said the Lord GOD to the mountains and the hills, to the watercourses and the valleys, and to the desolate wastes and deserted cities which have become a prey and a laughingstock to the other nations round about:
5Assuredly, thus said the Lord GOD: I have indeed spoken in My blazing wrath against the other nations and against all of Edom which, a-with wholehearted glee and with contempt, have made My land a possession for themselves for pasture and for prey.-a 6Yes, prophesy about the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, Thus said the Lord GOD: Behold, I declare in My blazing wrath: Because you have suffered the taunting of the nations, 7thus said the Lord GOD: I hereby swear that the nations which surround you shall, in their turn, suffer disgrace. 8But you, O mountains of Israel, shall yield your produce and bear your fruit for My people Israel, for their return is near. 9For I will care for you: I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown. 10I will settle a large population on you, the whole House of Israel; the towns shall be resettled, and the ruined sites rebuilt. 11I will multiply men and beasts upon you, and they shall increase and be fertile, and I will resettle you as you were formerly, and will make you more prosperous than you were at first. And you shall know that I am the LORD. 12I will lead men—My people Israel—to you, and they shall possess you. You shall be their heritage, and you shall not again cause them to be bereaved.
13Thus said the Lord GOD: Because they say to you, “You are [a land] that devours men, you have been a bereaver of your nations,”b 14assuredly, you shall devour men no more, you shall never again bereave your nations—declares the Lord GOD. 15No more will I allow the jibes of the nations to be heard against you, no longer shall you suffer the taunting of the peoples; and never again shall you cause your nations to stumblec—declares the Lord GOD.
16The word of the LORD came to me: 17O mortal, when the House of Israel dwelt on their own soil, they defiled it with their ways and their deeds; their ways were in My sight like the uncleanness of a menstruous woman. 18So I poured out My wrath on them for the blood which they shed upon their land, and for the fetishes with which they defiled it. 19I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries: I punished them in accordance with their ways and their deeds. 20But when they came d-to those nations,-d they caused My holy name to be profaned,e in that it was said of them, “These are the people of the LORD, yet they had to leave His land.” 21Therefore I am concerned for My holy name, which the House of Israel have caused to be profaned among the nations to which they have come.
22Say to the House of Israel: Thus said the Lord GOD: Not for your sake will I act, O House of Israel, but
