Ezequiel 36:33-38

33 "Así dice el Señor DIOS: 'En el día que yo os limpie de todas vuestras iniquidades, haré que las ciudades sean habitadas y las ruinas reedificadas.

34 'La tierra desolada será cultivada en vez de ser desolación a la vista de todo el que pasa.

35 'Y dirán: Esta tierra desolada se ha hecho como el huerto del Edén; y las ciudades desiertas, desoladas y arruinadas están fortificadas y habitadas.

36 'Y las naciones que quedan a vuestro alrededor sabrán que yo, el SEÑOR, he reedificado los lugares en ruinas y plantado lo que estaba desolado; yo, el SEÑOR, he hablado y lo haré.'

37 "Así dice el Señor DIOS: 'Aún permitiré a la casa de Israel que me pida hacer esto por ellos: Multiplicar sus hombres como un rebaño.

38 'Como el rebaño para los sacrificios, como el rebaño en Jerusalén en sus fiestas señaladas, así se llenarán las ciudades desiertas de rebaños de hombres. Entonces sabrán que yo soy el SEÑOR.'"

Ezequiel 36:33-38 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 36

This chapter is a prophecy concerning the desolations of the land of Israel, and the causes of them; of the return of the people to it, and the fruitfulness of it; and of spiritual blessings bestowed upon them in the latter day. And first, for the comfort of the people of Israel, it is observed that their enemies that insulted them will suffer the vengeance of God's wrath, particularly the Edomites, Eze 36:1-7, that the land of Israel should again become fruitful, its cities rebuilt, men and beasts be multiplied upon it, and be no more liable to destruction, nor bear any more the reproach of the Heathen, Eze 36:8-15, the causes of its desolation and destruction, the sins of its inhabitants, especially bloodshed, idolatry, and profanation of the name of God, Eze 36:16-20, nevertheless the Lord promises to have mercy on them, and return them to their own land, not for their sakes, but for his own name's sake, Eze 36:21-24, then follow promises of spiritual blessings to them: as purification from all sin by the blood of Christ; regeneration by his Spirit and grace; and evangelical obedience as the fruit of that, Eze 36:25-27, and others of a mixed kind, respecting partly temporal and partly spiritual blessings, Eze 36:28-36, for all which it is expected of the Lord that he should be prayed unto for them; particularly their inhabitation in their own land, and the multiplication of them in it, with which the chapter concludes, Eze 36:37,38.