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Ezekiel 36:35 KJV
Ezekiel · chapter 36 · verse 35
And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.Ezekiel 36:35 · King James Version
Ezekiel 36:35 in context
33Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.
34And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
35And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.
36Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it.
37Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- desolateshâmêmto stunH8074 →
- gardengana gardenH1588 →
- ruinedhâraçto pull down or in pieces, break, destroyH2040 →
- citiesʻîyra city in the widest senseH5892 →
- fencedbâtsarto gather grapesH1219 →
- wastechârêbparched or ruinedH2720 →
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The people of God might be discouraged in their hopes of a restoration by the sense not only of their unworthiness of such a favour (which was answered, in the foregoing verses, with this, that God, in doing it, would have an eye to his own glory, not to their worthiness), but of their unfitness for such a favour,…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 25-38