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Ezekiel 36:9
9I am concerned for you and will look on you with favor; you will be plowed and sown,
Ezekiel 36:9 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:
- English Standard Version (ESV)For behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For indeed I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown.
- New Living Translation (NLT)See, I care about you, and I will pay attention to you. Your ground will be plowed and your crops planted.
Context of Ezekiel 36:9
7Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I swear with uplifted hand that the nations around you will also suffer scorn. 8“ ‘But you, mountains of Israel, will produce branches and fruit for my people Israel, for they will soon come home. I am concerned for you and will look on you with favor; you will be plowed and sown, 10and I will cause many people to live on you—yes, all of Israel. The towns will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt. 11I will increase the number of people and animals living on you, and they will be fruitful and become numerous. I will settle people on you as in the past and will make you prosper more than before. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
Read all of Ezekiel 36Ezekiel 36:9 word by word
כִּ֖י הִנְנִ֣י אֲלֵיכֶ֑ם וּפָנִ֣יתִי אֲלֵיכֶ֔ם וְנֶעֱבַדְתֶּ֖ם וְנִזְרַעְתֶּֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Ezekiel 36:9
- Psalms 46:11The Lord Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.
- Psalms 99:8Lord our God, you answered them; you were to Israel a forgiving God, though you punished their misdeeds.
- Hosea 2:21“In that day I will respond,” declares the Lord— “I will respond to the skies, and they will respond to the earth;
- Joel 3:18“In that day the mountains will drip new wine, and the hills will flow with milk; all the ravines of Judah will run with water. A fountain will flow out of the Lord’s house and will water the valley of acacias.
- Haggai 2:19Is there yet any seed left in the barn? Until now, the vine and the fig tree, the pomegranate and the olive tree have not borne fruit. “ ‘From this day on I will bless you.’ ”
- Zechariah 8:12“The seed will grow well, the vine will yield its fruit, the ground will produce its crops, and the heavens will drop their dew. I will give all these things as an inheritance to the remnant of this people.
- Malachi 3:10Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.
- Romans 8:31What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Commentaries on Ezekiel 36:9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9Ye shall be tilled and sown - The land shall be cultivated as it formerly was, when best peopled and at peace.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8-11When God’s people returned to their land, Israel would grow in number and in harvest. This would fulfill the command God gave at creation to “be fruitful and multiply” (Genesis 1:28).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-38The distinction between Israel and the heathen (as Edom) is: Israel has a covenant relation to God ensuring restoration after chastisement, so that the heathen's hope of getting possession of the elect people's inheritance must fail, and they themselves be made desolate (Eze 36:1-15). The reason for the chastisement of Israel was Israel's sin and profanation of God's name (Eze 36:16-21). God has good in store for Israel, for His own name's sake, to revive…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Ezekiel 36
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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