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Ezekiel 36:1-38

A New Heart and a New Spirit

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A New Heart and a New Spirit

Ezekiel 36:1-38

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This song belongs to the Ezekiel collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.

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Ezekiel
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Ezekiel
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[Downbeat Hook] A new heart and a new spirit, Stone taken out, living flesh given in place. [Verse 1] Speak to the mountains that carried the scorn, Branches will rise where the terraces mourned. Not for your merit, but for the holy Name, The scattered are gathered and cleansed from their shame. [Chorus] A new heart and a new spirit, Stone taken out, living flesh given in place. Clean water falls where the idols had stood, The Spirit leads feet into statutes of good. [Verse 2] Ruins become gardens and cities breathe again, Grain fills the storehouse and fruit bends the stem. Memory does not vanish; repentance looks back, Grace builds the road without praising the past. [Bridge] The nations will see what the LORD has restored, A new heart beats where a hard one was torn. [Final Chorus] A new heart and a new spirit, Stone taken out, living flesh given in place. The Spirit leads feet into statutes of good. A new heart beats where a hard one was torn.

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Ezekiel 36: A restored land and a heart that can answer

Ezekiel 36 begins by speaking to the mountains that enemies had mocked and claimed, then moves inward until the real restoration reaches the human heart. The land will be cultivated, populated, and made fruitful again, but the chapter refuses to base that future on a flattering account of Israel's past. Bloodshed and idols defiled the land, exile was judgment, and the LORD says plainly that he acts for his holy name. Gathering is therefore joined to cleansing. A stony heart is removed, a living heart is given, and God's Spirit is placed within the people so that renewed obedience grows from renewed persons. Material abundance follows rather than replacing this inward work. Ruined cities are rebuilt, fields yield again, and a land once described as devouring its inhabitants becomes able to hold them. Restoration remembers exactly why restoration was necessary.

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