Holy Scripture

Ezekiel 36:7

A church father on this verse
“(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,…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Ezekiel

Source: Septuagint

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7therefore I will lift up my hand against the nations that are round about you; they shall bear their reproach.

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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:

6therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the valleys, and to the forests, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because ye have borne the reproaches of the heathen:

— Ezekiel 36:7 —

8But your grapes and your fruits, O mountains of Israel, shall my people eat; for they are hoping to come.

9For, behold, I am toward you, and I will have respect to you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:

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