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Ezekiel 36:38 KJV
Ezekiel · chapter 36 · verse 38
As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD.Ezekiel 36:38 · King James Version
Ezekiel 36:38 in context
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.
38As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- JerusalemYᵉrûwshâlaimJerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of PalestineH3389 →
- feastsmôwʻêdproperly, an appointmentH4150 →
- citiesʻîyra city in the widest senseH5892 →
- filledmâlêʼfull or fillingH4392 →
- flocktsôʼna collective name for a flockH6629 →
- 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