Ezekiel 36:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² Thus says the Lord God: Because the enemy said of you, “Aha!” and, “The ancient heights have become our possession,”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are our's in possession:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Thus says the Lord God: Because the enemy has said over you, Aha! and, The ancient heights have become our possession,

American Standard Version (1901)

² Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha! and, The ancient high places are ours in possession;

Common English Bible

² The LORD God proclaims: The enemy mocked you and said, “The ancient heights belong to us.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Thus says the Lord God: Because the enemy has said about you: 'It is well! The everlasting heights have been given to us as an inheritance!'

Ezekiel 36:2 Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:13

He set him atop the heights of the land and fed him with produce of the field; he nursed him with honey from the crags, with oil from flinty rock,

Ezekiel 35:10

Because you said, “These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will take possession of them”—although the Lord was there—

Ezekiel 25:3

Say to the Ammonites: Hear the word of the Lord God: Thus says the Lord God: Because you said, “Aha!” over my sanctuary when it was profaned and over the land of Israel when it was made desolate and over the house of Judah when it went into exile,

Habakkuk 3:19

God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer and makes me tread upon the heights. To the leader: with stringed instruments.

Ezekiel 26:2

Mortal, because Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, “Aha, broken is the gateway of the peoples; it has swung open to me; I shall be replenished, now that it is wasted,”

Jeremiah 49:1

Concerning the Ammonites. Thus says the Lord: Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then has Milcom dispossessed Gad and his people settled in its towns?

Isaiah 58:14

then you shall take delight in the Lord, and I will make you ride upon the heights of the earth; I will feed you with the heritage of your ancestor Jacob, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

Psalm 78:69

He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth, which he has founded forever.

Ezekiel 36:5

therefore thus says the Lord God: I am speaking in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who, with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, took my land as their possession, because of its pasture, to plunder it.

Ezekiel 35:12

You shall know that I, the Lord, have heard all the abusive speech that you uttered against the mountains of Israel, saying, “They are laid desolate; they are given us to devour.”

Ezekiel 36:1

And you, mortal, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say: O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord.

Obadiah 1:13

You should not have entered the gate of my people on the day of their calamity; you should not have joined in the gloating over Judah’s disaster on the day of his calamity; you should not have stolen his goods on the day of his calamity.

Psalm 83:13

O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.