Ezekiel 36:12

12 I will bring you, my people Israel, back to live again in the land. It will be your own land, and it will never again let your children starve.

Ezekiel 36:12 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 36:12

Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you
And not beasts, as during the captivity; and that without fear of wild beasts, or any enemy; and not as travellers upon them, but as inhabitants of them; who shall walk to and fro upon them, as the owners of them, and doing their proper business there: even my people Israel;
and them only: some read it, "with my people Israel" F9; as if other men, Gentiles called by grace, should dwell with the Jews at this time, particularly at their restoration in the latter day; which may be true, and, which seems to be the sense of the whole sixtieth chapter of Isaiah's prophecy: and they shall possess thee, and thou shall be their inheritance;
that is, thou mountain; a change of number, meaning everyone of the mountains, even the whole land of Canaan, which was given to the Israelites for an inheritance; and was typical of the eternal inheritance in heaven: and thou shall no more henceforth bereave them;
of men, or of children; or be no more the cause of their being childless, or of bereaving them of men; sins committed on the mountains being the cause of provoking the Lord to bereave them; or men should be no more killed upon them, as they had been.


FOOTNOTES:

F9 (larvy yme ta) "cum populo meo Israele", Junius & Tremcellius.

Ezekiel 36:12 In-Context

10 I will make your population grow. You will live in the cities and rebuild everything that was left in ruins.
11 I will make people and cattle increase in number. There will be more of you than ever before, and you will have many children. I will let you live there as you used to live, and I will make you more prosperous than ever. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
12 I will bring you, my people Israel, back to live again in the land. It will be your own land, and it will never again let your children starve.
13 "I, the Sovereign Lord, say: It is true that people say that the land eats people and that it robs the nation of its children.
14 But from now on it will no longer eat people and rob you of your children. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.