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.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
9For lo I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be ploughed and sown.
Cross References
Psalms 67:6Let the people, O God, confess to thee: let all the people give praise to thee:
Isaiah 4:2In that day the bud of the Lord shall be in magnificence and glory, and the fruit of the earth shall be high, and a great joy to them that shall have escaped of Israel.
Isaiah 30:23And rain shall be given to thy seed, wheresoever thou shalt sow in the land: and the bread of the corn of the land shall be most plentiful, and fat. The lamb in that day shall feed at large in thy possession:
Ezekiel 12:25For I the Lord will speak: and what word soever I shall speak, it shall come to pass, and shall not be prolonged any more: but in your days, ye provoking house, I will speak the word, and will do it, saith the Lord God.
Ezekiel 34:26And I will make them a blessing round about my hill: and I will send down the rain in its season, there shall be showers of blessing.
Hosea 2:21And it shall come to pass in that day: I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth.
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 →