7. Therefore, thus says the Lord God: I raise my hand and swear: the nations around you shall bear their own reproach.
8. But you, mountains of Israel, you will sprout branches and bear fruit for my people Israel, for they are coming soon.
9. Look! I am for you! I will turn my face toward you; you will be plowed and planted.
10. Upon you I will multiply the whole house of Israel; cities shall be resettled and ruins rebuilt.
11. Upon you I will multiply people and animals so they can multiply and be fruitful. I will resettle you as in the past, and make you more prosperous than at your beginning; then you shall know that I am the Lord.
12. Upon you I will have them walk, my people Israel. They shall possess you, and you shall be their heritage. Never again shall you rob them of their children.
13. Thus says the Lord God: Because they say of you, “You devour your own people, you rob your nation of its children,”
14. therefore, you shall never again devour your people or rob your nation of its children—oracle of the Lord God.
15. I will no longer make you listen to the reproach of nations. You will never again endure insults from the peoples. Never again shall you rob your nation of its children—oracle of the Lord God.
16. The word of the Lord came to me:
17. Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in its land, they defiled it with their behavior and their deeds. In my sight their behavior was like the impurity of a woman in menstruation.
18. So I poured out my fury upon them for the blood they poured out on the ground and for the idols with which they defiled it.