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Ezekiel 36:34

And the land which was waste will be farmed, in place of being a waste in the eyes of everyone who went by.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   The Topic Concordance - Gentiles/heathen;   Israel/jews;   Knowledge;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Building;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Jews;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel, Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Atonement (2);  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.
Hebrew Names Version
The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.
King James Version
And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
English Standard Version
And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, instead of being the desolation that it was in the sight of all who passed by.
New American Standard Bible
"The desolated land will be cultivated instead of being a desolation in the sight of everyone who passes by.
New Century Version
The empty land will be plowed so it will no longer be a ruin for everyone who passes by to see.
Amplified Bible
"The desolate land will be cultivated instead of being a desolation in the sight of everyone who passes by.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the desolate land shalbe tilled, whereas it lay waste in the sight of all that passed by.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The desolate land will be cultivated instead of being a desolation in the sight of everyone who passes by.
Legacy Standard Bible
The desolate land will be cultivated instead of being a desolation in the sight of everyone who passes by.
Berean Standard Bible
The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through.
Contemporary English Version
Your land will be plowed again, and nobody will be able to see that it was once barren.
Complete Jewish Bible
The land that was desolate will be tilled, whereas formerly it lay desolate for all passing by to see.
Darby Translation
And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all that passed by.
Easy-to-Read Version
People will begin again to work the land so when other people pass by they will not see ruins anymore.
George Lamsa Translation
And the desolate land shall be tilled, that was a desolation in the sight of all that passed by.
Good News Translation
Everyone who used to walk by your fields saw how overgrown and wild they were, but I will let you farm them again.
Lexham English Bible
And the land that was desolate will be cultivated in the very place that it was desolate before the eyes of all of the persons crossing over.
Literal Translation
And the desolated land shall be cultivated, rather than being a ruin in the eyes of all passing by.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The desolate londe shalbe buylded agayne, which afore tyme laye waist, in the sight of all them, that wete by.
American Standard Version
And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all that passed by.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all that passed by.
King James Version (1611)
And the desolate land shalbe tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The desolate lande shalbe tilled againe, which afore time lay waste in the sight of al them that went by.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and the desolate land shall be cultivated, whereas it was desolate in the eyes of every one that passed by.
English Revised Version
And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all that passed by.
World English Bible
The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and the desert lond schal be tilid, that was sum tyme desolat, bifor the iyen of ech weiegoere,
Update Bible Version
And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all that passed by.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
New English Translation
The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.
New King James Version
The desolate land shall be tilled instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass by.
New Living Translation
The fields that used to lie empty and desolate in plain view of everyone will again be farmed.
New Life Bible
And the waste land will be planted, instead of being a waste in the eyes of all who pass by.
New Revised Standard
The land that was desolate shall be tilled, instead of being the desolation that it was in the sight of all who passed by.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the land that was made desolate shall be tilled, - Whereas it was a desolation, before the eyes of every passer-by;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the desolate land shall be tilled, which before was waste in the sight of all that passed by,
Revised Standard Version
And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, instead of being the desolation that it was in the sight of all who passed by.
Young's Literal Translation
And the desolate land is tilled, Instead of which it was a desolation before the eyes of every passer by,

Contextual Overview

25 And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean. 26 And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you: I will take away the heart of stone from your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my spirit in you, causing you to be guided by my rules, and you will keep my orders and do them. 28 So that you may go on living in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you will be to me a people, and I will be to you a God. 29 And I will make you free from all your unclean ways: and at my voice the grain will come up and be increased, and I will not let you be short of food. 30 And I will make the tree give more fruit and the field fuller produce, and no longer will you be shamed among the nations for need of food. 31 And at the memory of your evil ways and your wrongdoings, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of your evil-doings and your disgusting ways, O children of Israel. 32 Not because of you am I doing it, says the Lord; let it be clear to you, and be shamed and made low because of your ways, O children of Israel. 33 This is what the Lord has said: In the day when I make you clean from all your evil-doings I will let the towns be peopled and there will be building on the waste places. 34 And the land which was waste will be farmed, in place of being a waste in the eyes of everyone who went by.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ezekiel 6:14, Deuteronomy 29:23-28, 2 Chronicles 36:21, Jeremiah 25:9-11

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:42 - and I will Ezekiel 33:28 - I will lay Hosea 11:11 - and I

Cross-References

Genesis 36:11
The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.
Genesis 36:15
These were the chiefs among the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz, Esau's first son: Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,
Job 2:11
And Job's three friends had word of all this evil which had come on him. And they came every one from his place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. So they came together to a meeting-place, in order that they might go and make clear to Job their grief for him, and give him comfort.
Jeremiah 49:7
About Edom. This is what the Lord of armies has said. Is there no more wisdom in Teman? have wise suggestions come to an end among men of good sense? has their wisdom completely gone?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the desolate land shall be tilled,.... The land of Judea, which lay desolate during the captivity, and which now is under the dominion of the Turks, and in a ruinous state, shall be manured and cultivated, and become fruitful, as it formerly was: or the people of the Jews, who, in a spiritual sense, are like barren and uncultivated ground; these shall have the fallow ground of their hearts ploughed up, and the seeds of grace, truth, and righteousness, shall be sown in them, and they shall bring forth the fruit of good works:

whereas it lay desolate in the eyes of all that passed by: as the land of Canaan now does to every traveller in it, that observes it, and compares it with what it once was; and as the present state of the Jews is, in the eyes of every Christian pilgrim and traveller, that takes notice of their blindness and ignorance, their unbelief and hardness of heart.


 
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