Ezekiel 36:9

For truly I am for you, and I will be turned to you, and you will be ploughed and planted:

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In The King James Version

For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:

In Context

8But you, O mountains of Israel, will put out your branches and give your fruit to my people Israel; for they are ready to come.

10And 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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Cross References

Psalms 99:8You gave them an answer, O Lord our God; you took away their sin, though you gave them punishment for their wrongdoing.

Hosea 2:21And it will be, in that day, says the Lord, that I will give an answer to the heavens, and the heavens to the earth;

Haggai 2:19Is the seed still in the store-house? have the vine and the fig-tree, the pomegranate and the olive-tree, still not given their fruit? from this day I will send my blessing on you.

Malachi 3:10Let your tenths come into the store-house so that there may be food in my house, and put me to the test by doing so, says the Lord of armies, and see if I do not make the windows of heaven open and send down such a blessing on you that there is no room for it.

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 →

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