Ezekiel 36:9

9 I am concerned about you. I will look on you with favor. Farmers will plow your ground. They will plant seeds in it.

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 So the LORD and King says, "I raise my hand and take an oath. I promise that the nations around you will also be laughed at.
8 " ' "Mountains of Israel, you will produce branches and bear fruit for my people Israel. They will come home soon.
9 I am concerned about you. I will look on you with favor. Farmers will plow your ground. They will plant seeds in it.
10 " ' "I will multiply the number of people who live in Israel. The towns will no longer be empty. Their broken-down houses will be rebuilt.
11 I will increase the number of your people and animals. They will have many babies. I will settle people in your towns, just as I did in the past. I will help you succeed more than ever before. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
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