Ezekiel 36:9

9 I am concerned for you and will look on you with favor; you will be plowed and sown,

Ezekiel 36:9 in Other Translations

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

9 For behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown.

9 See, I care about you, and I will pay attention to you. Your ground will be plowed and your crops planted.

9 Do you see? I'm back again. I'm on your side. You'll be plowed and planted as before!

9 Look! I am on your side; I will turn toward you, and you will be tilled and sown.

Ezekiel 36:9 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 36:9

For, behold, I am for you
For the mountains, that they might be cultivated and become fruitful, and be of advantage to their proprietors, and appear beautiful and lovely to behold, as well as to be useful: and I will turn unto you;
the Lord had turned from them, and left them a prey to the enemy, whereby they were become desolate; but now he would turn unto them, and bless them, and make them fruitful, and return the right owners of them to them, who should greatly improve them: and ye shall be tilled and sown;
manured and cultivated, and sown with wheat and barley, as in former times.

Ezekiel 36:9 In-Context

7 Therefore 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.

9 I am concerned for you and will look on you with favor; you will be plowed and sown,

10 and I will cause many people to live on you—yes, all of Israel. The towns will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.

11 I 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.

Cross References

• 1. ver 34-36; Jeremiah 31:27