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The Nations Will Stop Laughing at Israel

24 “‘Then the surrounding nations that hate Israel will no longer be like stinging nettles[a] and painful thorns. And they will know that I am the Lord God.’”

25 This is what the Lord God said: “I scattered the people of Israel among other nations, but I will gather the family of Israel together again. Then the nations will know that I am holy, and they will treat me that way. At that time the people of Israel will live in their land—I gave that land to my servant Jacob. 26 They will live safely in the land. They will build houses and plant vineyards. I will punish the nations around them that hated them. Then the people of Israel will live in safety, and they will know that I am the Lord their God.”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 28:24 nettles Plants covered with stinging hairs.

24 “‘No longer will the people of Israel have malicious neighbors who are painful briers and sharp thorns.(A) Then they will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.

25 “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When I gather(B) the people of Israel from the nations where they have been scattered,(C) I will be proved holy(D) through them in the sight of the nations. Then they will live in their own land, which I gave to my servant Jacob.(E) 26 They will live there in safety(F) and will build houses and plant(G) vineyards; they will live in safety when I inflict punishment(H) on all their neighbors who maligned them. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.(I)’”

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