Ezekiel 36:3
“(Verse 35, 36, and following) And I will bring you into a desert of peoples, and there I will judge you face to face. Just as I contended with your fathers in the desert of the land of Egypt, so I will judge you, says the Lord. And I will subject you to my scepter, and I will bring you into the bonds of the covenant,…”
Source: Septuagint
3therefore prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Because ye have been dishonored, and hated by those round about you, that ye might be a possession to the remainder of the nations, and ye became a byword, and a reproach to the nations:
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1And thou, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say to the mountains of Israel, Hear ye the word of the Lord:
2Thus saith the Lord God; Because the enemy has said against you, Aha, the old waste places are become a possession for us:
— Ezekiel 36:3 —
4therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the streams, and to the valleys, and to the places that have been made desolate and destroyed, and to the cities that have been deserted, and have become a spoil and a trampling to the nations that were left round about;
5therefore thus saith the Lord; Verily in the fire of my wrath have I spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, because they have appropriated my land to themselves for a possession with joy, disregarding the lives of the inhabitants, to destroy it by plunder: