Ezekiel 36:8

Complete Jewish Bible

But you, mountains of Isra'el, you will sprout your branches and bear your fruit for my people Isra'el, who will soon return.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“‘You, mountains of Israel, will produce your branches and bear your fruit for my people Israel, since their arrival is near.

Hebrew Names Version
But you, mountains of Yisra'el, you shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Yisra'el; for they are at hand to come.

King James Version
But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.

English Standard Version
"But you, O mountains of Israel, shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to my people Israel, for they will soon come home.

New American Standard Bible
'But as for you, mountains of Israel, you will grow your branches and bear fruit for My people Israel; for they are about to come.

New Century Version
"‘But you, mountains of Israel, will grow branches and fruit for my people, who will soon come home.

Amplified Bible
'But you, O mountains of Israel, will put out your branches and bear your fruit to My people Israel; for they will soon come [home].

Geneva Bible (1587)
But you, O mountaines of Israel, yee shall shoote forth your branches, and bring foorth your fruite to my people of Israel: for they are ready to come.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'But you, O mountains of Israel, you will put forth your branches and bear your fruit for My people Israel; for they will soon come.

Legacy Standard Bible
But you, O mountains of Israel, you will put forth your branches and bear your fruit for My people Israel; for they will soon come.

Berean Standard Bible
But you, O mountains of Israel, will produce branches and bear fruit for My people Israel, for they will soon come home.

Contemporary English Version
Trees will grow on you mountains of Israel and produce fruit for my people, because they will soon come home.

Darby Translation
And ye mountains of Israel shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel: for they are at hand to come.

Easy-to-Read Version
"But mountains of Israel, you will grow new trees and produce fruit for my people Israel. My people will soon come back.

George Lamsa Translation
But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your grass and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are ready to come.

Good News Translation
But on the mountains of Israel the trees will again grow leaves and bear fruit for you, my people Israel. You are going to come home soon.

Lexham English Bible
"‘"But you, mountains of Israel, your branch you will shoot, and your fruit you will carry for my people Israel, for they are soon to come.

Literal Translation
But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall put out your branches and your fruit, you shall bear for My people Israel. For they are drawing near to come.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And as for you (o mountaynes of Israel) ye shall shute out youre braunches, and bringe forth youre frute to my people of Israel, for it is harde by, that it wil come.

American Standard Version
But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to come.

Bible in Basic English
But you, O mountains of Israel, will put out your branches and give your fruit to my people Israel; for they are ready to come.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to My people Israel; for they are at hand to come.

King James Version (1611)
But ye, O mountaines of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yeeld your fruit to my people of Israel, for they are at hand to come.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But you, O mountaynes of Israel, ye shall shoote out your braunches, and bring foorth your fruite to my people of Israel: for they are at hande to come.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But your grapes and your fruits, O mountains of Israel, shall my people eat; for they are hoping to come.

English Revised Version
But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to come.

World English Bible
But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to come.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe, ye hillis of Israel, brynge forth youre braunchis, and bringe ye fruit to my puple Israel; for it is niy that it come.

Update Bible Version
But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to come.

Webster's Bible Translation
But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.

New English Translation
"‘But you, mountains of Israel, will grow your branches, and bear your fruit for my people Israel; for they will arrive soon.

New King James Version
But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to My people Israel, for they are about to come.

New Living Translation
"But the mountains of Israel will produce heavy crops of fruit for my people—for they will be coming home again soon!

New Life Bible
But you, O mountains of Israel, will put out your branches and give your fruit for My people Israel. For they will come home soon.

New Revised Standard
But you, O mountains of Israel, shall shoot out your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they shall soon come home.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But ye O mountains of Israel Your boughs, shall ye shoot forth, And your fruit, shall ye bear For my people Israel, For they have drawn near to enter.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But as for you, O mountains of Israel, shoot ye forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel: for they are at hand to come.

Revised Standard Version
"But you, O mountains of Israel, shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they will soon come home.

Young's Literal Translation
And ye, O mountains of Israel, Your branch ye give out, and your fruits ye bear for My people Israel, For they have drawn near to come.

THE MESSAGE
"‘But you, Mountains of Israel, will burst with new growth, putting out branches and bearing fruit for my people Israel. My people are coming home! Do you see? I'm back again. I'm on your side. You'll be plowed and planted as before! I'll see to it that your population grows all over Israel, that the towns fill up with people, that the ruins are rebuilt. I'll make this place teem with life—human and animal. The country will burst into life, life, and more life, your towns and villages full of people just as in the old days. I'll treat you better than I ever have. And you'll realize that I am God . I'll put people over you—my own people Israel! They'll take care of you and you'll be their inheritance. Never again will you be a harsh and unforgiving land to them.

Contextual Overview

¹ "Now you, human being, prophesy to the mountains of Isra'el. Say: ‘Mountains of Isra'el, hear the message from Adonai . ² Adonai Elohim says: "The enemy is boasting over you, ‘Ha! Even the ancient high places are ours now!' " ' ³ Therefore prophesy, and say that Adonai Elohim says, ‘Because they desolated you and swallowed you up from every side, so that the other nations could take possession of you; and now people are gossiping about you and slandering you; ⁴ therefore, mountains of Isra'el, hear the message of Adonai Elohim — this is what Adonai Elohim says to the mountains and hills, the streams and valleys, the desolate wastes and the abandoned cities, now preyed on and derided by the other surrounding nations — ⁵ therefore this is what Adonai Elohim says: "In the heat of my jealousy I speak against the other nations and all of Edom, since, rejoicing with all their heart, they have arrogated my land to themselves as a possession and, with utter contempt, seized it as prey."' ⁶ "Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Isra'el, and say to the mountains, the hills, the streams and the valleys that Adonai Elohim says this: ‘I speak in my jealousy and fury, because you have endured being shamed by the nations. ⁷ Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim : "I have raised my hand and sworn that the nations surrounding you will bear their shame. ⁸ But you, mountains of Isra'el, you will sprout your branches and bear your fruit for my people Isra'el, who will soon return. ⁹ I am here for you, and I will turn toward you; then you will be tilled and sown; ¹⁰ and I will multiply your population, all the house of Isra'el, all of it. The cities will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

ye shall: Ezekiel 34:26-29, Psalms 67:6, Psalms 85:12, Isaiah 4:2, Isaiah 27:6, Isaiah 30:23, Hosea 2:21-23, Amos 9:13-15

for: The Edomites, and other enemies of the Jews, who thought they would soon be in possession of the whole land of Judea, might be assured that the predicted seventy years of the captivity were wearing away, and the time would soon arrive when the Jews would repossess and cultivate their own land, and eat its fruits.

at hand: Ezekiel 12:25, Philippians 4:5, Hebrews 10:37, James 5:8, James 5:9

Reciprocal: Joshua 11:16 - the mountain Isaiah 17:6 - General Isaiah 44:23 - glorified Isaiah 58:12 - build Isaiah 65:9 - I will Jeremiah 3:16 - when Jeremiah 31:5 - mountains Jeremiah 33:12 - in all Ezekiel 6:3 - Ye Ezekiel 36:1 - hear Ezekiel 36:29 - call Hosea 2:14 - and speak Joel 2:22 - for the tree Amos 3:9 - the mountains Micah 6:1 - contend

Cross-References

Genesis 14:6
and the Hori at Se‘ir, their mountain, all the way to Eil-Pa'ran by the desert.

Genesis 32:3
When Ya‘akov saw them, he said, "This is God's camp," and called that place Machanayim [two camps]. Haftarah Vayetze: Hoshea (Hosea) 12:13(12)–14:10(9) (A); 11:7–12:12(11) (S) B'rit Hadashah suggested reading for Parashah Vayetze: Yochanan (John) 1:43–51 Ya‘akov sent messengers ahead of him to ‘Esav his brother toward the land of Se‘ir, the country of Edom, with these instructions: "Here is what you are to say to my lord ‘Esav: ‘Your servant Ya‘akov says, "I have been living with Lavan and have stayed until now. I have cattle, donkeys and flocks, and male and female servants. I am sending to tell this news to my lord, in order to win your favor." '" The messengers returned to Ya‘akov saying, "We went to your brother ‘Esav, and he is coming to meet you; with him are four hundred men." Ya‘akov became greatly afraid and distressed. He divided the people, flocks, cattle and camels with him into two camps, saying, "If ‘Esav comes to the one camp and attacks it, at least the camp that is left will escape." Then Ya‘akov said, "God of my father Avraham and God of my father Yitz'chak, Adonai , who told me, ‘Return to your country and your kinsmen, and I will do you good': I'm not worthy of all the love and faithfulness you have shown your servant, since I crossed the Yarden with only my staff. But now I have become two camps. Please! Rescue me from my brother ‘Esav! I'm afraid of him, afraid he'll come and attack me, without regard for mothers or children. You said, ‘I will certainly do you good and make your descendants as numerous as the grains of sand by the sea, which are so many they can't be counted.'" (ii) He stayed there that night; then he chose from among his possessions the following as a present for ‘Esav his brother: two hundred female goats and twenty males, two hundred female sheep and twenty males, thirty milk-camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten colts. He turned them over to his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, "Cross over in front of me, and keep a space between each drove and the next one." He instructed the servant in front, "When ‘Esav my brother meets you and asks you, ‘Whose servant are you? Where are you going? And whose animals are these?' then you are to say, ‘They belong to your servant Ya‘akov, and they are a present he has sent to my lord ‘Esav; and Ya‘akov himself is just behind us.'" He also instructed the second servant, and the third, and all that followed the droves, "When you encounter ‘Esav, you are to speak to him in the same way, and you are to add, ‘And there, just behind us, is your servant Ya‘akov.'" For he said, "I will appease him first with the present that goes ahead of me; then, after that, I will see him myself — and maybe he will be friendly toward me." So the present crossed over ahead of him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp. He got up that night, took his two wives, his two slave-girls, and his eleven children, and forded the Yabok. He took them and sent them across the stream, then sent his possessions across; and Ya‘akov was left alone. Then some man wrestled with him until daybreak. When he saw that he did not defeat Ya‘akov, he struck Ya‘akov's hip socket, so that his hip was dislocated while wrestling with him. The man said, "Let me go, because it's daybreak." But Ya‘akov replied, "I won't let you go unless you bless me." The man asked, "What is your name?" and he answered, "Ya‘akov." Then the man said, "From now on, you will no longer be called Ya‘akov, but Isra'el; because you have shown your strength to both God and men and have prevailed." Ya‘akov asked him, "Please tell me your name." But he answered, "Why are you asking about my name?" and blessed him there. (iii) Ya‘akov called the place P'ni-El [face of God], "Because I have seen God face to face, yet my life is spared." As the sun rose upon him he went on past P'ni-El, limping at the hip. This is why, to this day, the people of Isra'el do not eat the thigh muscle that passes along the hip socket — because the man struck Ya‘akov's hip at its socket.

Genesis 36:1
This is the genealogy of ‘Esav (that is, Edom).

Genesis 36:2
‘Esav chose Kena‘ani women as his wives: ‘Adah the daughter of Eilon the Hitti; Oholivamah the daughter of ‘Anah the daughter of Tziv‘on the Hivi;

Genesis 36:7
For their possessions had become too great for them to live together, and the countryside through which they were traveling couldn't support so much livestock.

Genesis 36:19
These were the descendants of ‘Esav (that is, Edom), and these were their chieftains.

Genesis 36:20
(vii) These were the descendants of Se‘ir the Hori, the local inhabitants: Lotan, Shoval, Tziv‘on, ‘Anah,

Deuteronomy 2:5
and don't get into disputes with them; for I am not going to give you any of their land, no, not even enough for one foot to stand on; inasmuch as I have given Mount Se‘ir to ‘Esav as his possession.

Joshua 24:4
I gave to Yitz'chak Ya‘akov and ‘Esav. To ‘Esav I gave Mount Se‘ir as his possession, but Ya‘akov and his children went down into Egypt.

1 Chronicles 4:42
Some 500 of them who were descendants of Shim‘on went to Mount Se‘ir under the leadership of P'latyah, Ne‘aryah, Refayah and Uzi'el the sons of Yish‘i.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But ye, O mountains of Israel,.... Literally understood, as appears by what follows; for though they could not hear what was said, the proprietors of them could, now in captivity; and the efficacy of the word should be seen on them, producing the following effects:

ye shall shoot forth your branches; that is, the trees that grew upon them should; the vines, and the olive trees, planted on hills and mountains, as was usual, as appears from the mount of Olives, and other places:

and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; not only put forth branches, but bear fruit; and which should be given to the right owners, the people of Israel, and not to the Heathens, who had claimed the ancient mountains for their possession:

for they are at hand to come; the Israelites; either by repentance, as Kimchi; or by a return from the Babylonish captivity, which was about forty or fifty years after this prophecy; and which was but a shadow and figure of their restoration in the latter day, yet to come; which might be said to be at hand, or near, with respect to God, with whom two or three thousand years are as nothing. The Targum is,

"for the day of my redemption is near to come.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They are at hand to come - i. e., under Zerubbabel.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 36:8. For they are at hand to come. — The restoration of the Jews is so absolutely determined that you may rest assured it will take place; and be as confident relative to it, as if you saw the different families entering into the Israelitish borders. It was near at hand in God's determination, though there were about fifty-eight of the seventy years unelapsed.