Ezekiel 36:9

I ◄am concerned about/will take care of► you, and I will bless you. I will enable farmers to plow the ground and plant seed there.

Translation for Translators

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 I say to you mountains in Israel that huge crops of fruit will grow on your trees for my Israeli people, because they will soon return home from Babylonia.

10I will cause the number of people who live on you mountains and everywhere else in Israel to greatly increase. People will live in the towns and rebuild houses where there are now only ruins.

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Cross References

Psalms 99:8Yahweh, our God, you answered your people when they cried out to you to help them; you are a God who forgave them for those sins that they had committed, even though you punished them for the things that they did that are wrong.

Hosea 2:21At that time, when they request me to do things for them, I will do those things. When they request clouds and rain to fall on their land, I will speak to the clouds, and rain will fall on the earth,

Haggai 2:19Is there now [RHQ] any grain seed left in your barns? No, because you have eaten the small amount that you harvested. And there is no fruit on your grapevines and fig trees and pomegranate trees and olive trees. But, from now on, I will bless you!’”

Malachi 3:10Now bring all the tithes to the storage rooms in the temple, in order that there will be enough food for the people who serve me there. If you do that, I, the Commander of the armies of angels, promise that I will open the windows of heaven, and pour out from them blessings on you. If you bring your tithes to the temple, the blessings will be very great, with the result that you will not have enough space to store all of them. So test me to see if I am telling the truth.

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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