Ezekiel 36:10
And I will let your numbers be increased, all the children of Israel, even all of them: and the towns will be peopled and the waste places will have buildings;
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In Context
9For truly I am for you, and I will be turned to you, and you will be ploughed and planted:
Cross References
Isaiah 27:6In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.
Isaiah 49:17Your builders are coming quickly; your haters and those who made you waste will go out of you.
Isaiah 52:9Give sounds of joy, make melody together, waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord has given comfort to his people, he has taken up the cause of Jerusalem.
Isaiah 61:4And they will be building again the old broken walls, and will make new the old waste places, and will put up again the towns which have been waste for long generations.
Jeremiah 31:10Give ear to the word of the Lord, O you nations, and give news of it in the sea-lands far away, and say, He who has sent Israel wandering will get him together and will keep him as a keeper does his flock.
Jeremiah 33:12This is what the Lord of armies has said: Again there will be in this place, which is a waste, without man and without beast, and in all its towns, a resting-place where the keepers of sheep will make their flocks take rest.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 36:2-16
God's Compassion for Israel. ( b. c. 587.) 1 Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord : 2 Thus saith the Lord God ; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession: 3 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God ; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips… Read the whole commentary →