Ezekiel 36:7
Good News Translation
I, the Sovereign LORD, solemnly promise that the surrounding nations will be humiliated.

New Revised Standard Version
therefore thus says the Lord GOD: I swear that the nations that are all around you shall themselves suffer insults.

Contemporary English Version
so I will now insult and disgrace them. That is my solemn promise.

New American Bible
Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD: I raise my hand and swear: the nations around you shall bear their own reproach.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: I have lifted up my hand, that the Gentiles who are round about you, shall themselves bear their shame.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Therefore thus saith the Lord God: I have lifted up my hand, that the Gentiles who are round about you, shall themselves bear their shame.

I have lifted

Ezekiel 20:5,15 And say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up my hand for the race of the house of Jacob: and appeared to them in the land of Egypt, and lifted up my hand for them, saying: I am the Lord your God: . . .

Deuteronomy 32:40 I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live for ever.

Revelation 10:5,6 And the angel whom I saw standing upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven. . . .

the heathen

Ezekiel 25:1-35:15 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: . . .

Jeremiah 25:9,15-29 Behold I will send, and take all the kindreds of the north, saith the Lord, and Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon my servant: and I will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all the nations that are round about it: and I will destroy them, and make them an astonishment and a hissing, and perpetual desolations. . . .

Jeremiah 47:1-51:64 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the people of Palestine, before Pharao took Gaza. . . .

Amos 1:1-15 The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Thecua: which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Ozias king of Juda, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joas king of Israel two years before the earthquake. . . .

Zephaniah 2:1-15 Assemble yourselves together, be gathered together, O nation not worthy to be loved: . . .

Context
A Prophecy to the Mountains of Israel
6Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains, and to the hills, to the ridges, and to the valleys: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I have spoken in my zeal, and in my indignation, because you have borne the shame of the Gentiles. 7Therefore thus saith the Lord God: I have lifted up my hand, that the Gentiles who are round about you, shall themselves bear their shame.8But as for you, O mountains of Israel, shoot ye forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel: for they are at hand to come.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 36:6
Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains, and to the hills, to the ridges, and to the valleys: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I have spoken in my zeal, and in my indignation, because you have borne the shame of the Gentiles.

Ezekiel 36:8
But as for you, O mountains of Israel, shoot ye forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel: for they are at hand to come.

Ezekiel 36:15
Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the nations any more, nor shalt thou bear the reproach of the people, nor lose thy nation any more, saith the Lord God.

Ezekiel 36:6
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