Old/New Testament

Prophecy Against Mount Seir

35 Moreover, the word of Yahweh came to me saying, ² “Son of man, set your face against ^(A)Mount Seir and prophesy against it ³ and say to it, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh,

⁵ Because you have had everlasting ^(E)enmity and have ^[a]delivered the sons of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their disaster, at the time of the ^[b](F)punishment of the end, ⁶ therefore as I live,” declares Lord Yahweh, “I will ^[c]prepare you for ^(G)bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you; you surely have not hated bloodshed, so bloodshed will pursue you. ⁷ I will make Mount Seir a waste and a desolation, and I will cut off from it the one who passes through and returns. ⁸ I will ^(H)fill its mountains with its slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those slain by the sword will ^[d]fall. ⁹ I will make you an everlasting ^(I)desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

¹⁰ “Because you have ^(J)said, ‘These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we will possess ^[e]them,’ although ^(K)Yahweh was there, ¹¹ therefore as I live,” declares Lord Yahweh, “I will deal with you ^(L)according to your anger and according to your jealousy which you dealt with them because of your hatred against them; so I will ^(M)make Myself known among them when I judge you. ¹² Then you will know ^[f]that I, Yahweh, have heard all your ^[g]contempt which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel saying, ‘They are laid desolate; they are ^(N)given to us for food.’ ¹³ And you have ^(O)magnified yourselves with your mouth against Me and have multiplied your words against Me; ^(P)I have heard it.” ¹⁴ Thus says Lord Yahweh, “As all the ^(Q)earth delights, I will make you a desolation. ¹⁵ As you ^(R)delighted over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, ^(S)so I will do to you. You will be a ^(T)desolation, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”’

Mountains of Israel Will Bear Fruit

36 “Now as for you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say, ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of Yahweh. ² Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Because the enemy has spoken against you, ‘Aha!’ and, ‘The everlasting ^[h](U)heights have become our possession,’ ³ therefore prophesy and say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “^[i]For good reason they have made you ^(V)desolate and bruised you from every side, that you would become a possession of the rest of the nations, and you have been taken up in the ^[j](W)speech of their tongue and the rumors of the people.”’” ⁴ Therefore, O ^(X)mountains of Israel, hear the word of Lord Yahweh. Thus says Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the forsaken cities which have become ^(Y)plunder and objects of scoffing to the rest of the nations which are round about, ⁵ therefore thus says Lord Yahweh, “Surely in the fire of My ^(Z)jealousy I have spoken against the ^(AA)rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave My land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted ^(AB)gladness and with scorn of soul, to drive it out for plunder.” ⁶ Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, “Thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and in My wrath because you have ^(AC)borne the dishonor of the nations.’ ⁷ Therefore thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘I have ^[k]sworn that surely the nations which are around you will themselves bear their dishonor. ⁸ But you, O mountains of Israel, you will ^(AD)put forth your branches and bear your fruit for My people Israel; for they will soon come. ⁹ For, behold, I am for you, and I will ^(AE)turn to you, and you will be ^(AF)cultivated and sown. ¹⁰ I will multiply men on you, ^(AG)all the house of Israel, all of it; and the ^(AH)cities will be inhabited, and the waste places will be rebuilt. ¹¹ I will multiply on you man and beast; and they will multiply and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited as you were ^(AI)formerly and will ^[l]treat you ^(AJ)better than at the first. Thus you will know that I am Yahweh. ¹² And I will cause ^(AK)men—My people Israel—to walk on you and possess you so that you will become their ^(AL)inheritance and never again ^(AM)bereave them of children.’

¹³ “Thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘Because they say to you, “You are a ^(AN)devourer of men and have bereaved your ^[m]nation of children,” ¹⁴ therefore you will no longer devour men and no longer bereave your nation of children,’ declares Lord Yahweh. ¹⁵ I will not let you hear ^(AO)dishonor from the nations anymore, nor will you bear ^(AP)reproach from the peoples any longer, nor will you cause your nation to ^(AQ)stumble any longer,” declares Lord Yahweh.’”

Yahweh’s Name Profaned Among the Nations

¹⁶ Then the word of Yahweh came to me saying, ¹⁷ “Son of man, when the house of Israel was living in their own land, they ^(AR)defiled it by their ways and their deeds; their way before Me was like ^(AS)the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity. ¹⁸ Therefore I ^(AT)poured out My wrath on them for the blood which they had shed on the land, because they had defiled it with their idols. ¹⁹ Also I ^(AU)scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed throughout the lands. ^(AV)According to their ways and their deeds I judged them. ²⁰ Then they came to the nations to which they came. And they ^(AW)profaned My holy name because it was said of them, ‘These are the ^(AX)people of Yahweh; yet they have come out of His land.’ ²¹ But I ^[n]had concern for My ^(AY)holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went.

They Will Know That I Am Yahweh

²² “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “It is ^(AZ)not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for My holy name, which you have profaned among the nations, to which you have come. ²³ I will ^(BA)prove the holiness of My great name which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst. Then the ^(BB)nations will know that I am Yahweh,” declares Lord Yahweh, “when I prove Myself holy among you in their sight. ²⁴ And I will ^(BC)take you from the nations, gather you from all the lands, and bring you into your own land. ²⁵ Then I will ^[o](BD)sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your ^(BE)uncleanness and from all your ^(BF)idols. ²⁶ Moreover, I will give you a ^(BG)new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the ^(BH)heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. ²⁷ I will ^(BI)put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to do My judgments. ²⁸ And you will inhabit the land that I gave to your fathers; so you will be ^(BJ)My people, and I will be your God. ²⁹ Moreover, I will save you from all your uncleanness; and I will call for the grain and multiply it, and I ^(BK)will not ^[p]bring a famine on you. ³⁰ I will ^(BL)multiply the fruit of the tree and the produce of the field so that you will not receive again the reproach of famine among the nations. ³¹ Then you will ^(BM)remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves to your own faces for your iniquities and your abominations. ³² I am not doing this ^(BN)for your sake,” declares Lord Yahweh, “let it be known to you. Be ashamed and feel dishonor for your ways, O house of Israel!”

³³ ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the ^(BO)cities to be inhabited, and the ^(BP)waste places will be rebuilt. ³⁴ The desolate land will be cultivated instead of being a desolation in the sight of everyone who passes by. ³⁵ And they will say, ‘This desolate land has become like the ^(BQ)garden of Eden; and the waste, desolate, and ^[q]ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.’ ³⁶ Then the nations that remain all around you will know that I, Yahweh, have rebuilt the ruined places and planted that which was desolate; I, Yahweh, have spoken and ^(BR)will do it.”

³⁷ ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “This also I will let the house of Israel inquire of Me to do for them: I will increase their men like a flock. ³⁸ Like the ^(BS)flock for holy offerings, like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed times, so will the waste cities be filled with ^(BT)flocks of men. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”’”

Precious and Magnificent Promises

1 ^[a]Simeon Peter, a ^(A)slave and ^(B)apostle of Jesus Christ,

To those who have received ^(C)the same ^[b]kind of faith as ours, ^[c]by ^(D)the righteousness of ^(E)our God and Savior, Jesus Christ: ^2 (F)Grace and peace be multiplied to you in ^(G)the full knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; ³ seeing that His ^(H)divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the ^(I)full knowledge of Him who ^(J)called us ^[d]by His own glory and ^[e]excellence. ^4 [f]For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent ^(K)promises, so that by them you may become ^(L)partakers of the divine nature, having ^(M)escaped the ^(N)corruption that is in ^(O)the world by lust. ⁵ Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith ^(P)supply ^(Q)moral ^[g]excellence, and in your moral excellence, ^(R)knowledge, ⁶ and in your knowledge, ^(S)self-control, and in your self-control, ^(T)perseverance, and in your perseverance, ^(U)godliness, ⁷ and in your godliness, ^[h](V)brotherly kindness, and in your ^[i]brotherly kindness, ^[j]love. ⁸ For if these things are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor ^(W)unfruitful in the ^(X)full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ For in whom these things are not present, that one is ^(Y)blind, being nearsighted, having ^[k]forgotten the ^(Z)purification from his former sins. ¹⁰ Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your ^(AA)calling and ^(AB)choosing sure; for in doing these things, you will never ^(AC)stumble; ¹¹ for in this way the entrance into ^(AD)the eternal kingdom of our ^(AE)Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be ^(AF)abundantly ^(AG)supplied to you.

¹² Therefore, ^(AH)I will always be ready to remind you of these things, even though you already know them, and have been strengthened in ^(AI)the truth which is present with you. ¹³ I consider it ^(AJ)right, as long as I am in ^(AK)this earthly dwelling, to ^(AL)stir you up by way of reminder, ¹⁴ knowing that ^(AM)the laying aside of my earthly dwelling is imminent, ^(AN)as also our Lord Jesus Christ has indicated to me. ¹⁵ And I will also be diligent that at any time after my ^[l](AO)departure you will be able to call these things to mind.

Eyewitnesses of Jesus

¹⁶ For we did not make known to you the ^(AP)power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, following cleverly devised ^(AQ)myths, but being ^(AR)eyewitnesses of His majesty. ¹⁷ For when He received honor and glory from God the Father, such an ^[m](AS)utterance as this was ^[n]made to Him by the ^(AT)Majestic Glory, “This is My beloved Son with whom I am well-pleased”— ¹⁸ and we ourselves heard this ^[o]utterance made from heaven when we were with Him on the ^(AU)holy mountain.

^19 [p]And we have as more ^(AV)sure ^(AW)the prophetic word, to which you do well to pay attention as to ^(AX)a lamp shining in a dark place, until the ^(AY)day dawns and the ^(AZ)morning star arises ^(BA)in your hearts. ^20 (BB)Know this first of all, that ^(BC)no prophecy of Scripture comes by one’s own interpretation. ²¹ For ^(BD)no prophecy was ever made by the will of man, but men being ^(BE)moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.