Ezekiel 36:9

The Darby Translation

For behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Look! I am on your side; I will turn toward you, and you will be tilled and sown.

Hebrew Names Version
For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn into you, and you shall be tilled and sown;

King James Version
For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:

English Standard Version
For behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown.

New American Standard Bible
'For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you will be cultivated and sown.

New Century Version
I am concerned about you; I am on your side. You will be plowed, and seed will be planted in you.

Amplified Bible
'For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you [in favor], and you shall be cultivated and sown.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For behold, I come vnto you, & I wil turne vnto you, and ye shalbe tilled and sowen.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you will be cultivated and sown.

Legacy Standard Bible
For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you will be cultivated and sown.

Berean Standard Bible
For behold, I am on your side; I will turn toward you, and you will be tilled and sown.

Contemporary English Version
I will take care of you by plowing your soil and planting crops on your fertile slopes.

Complete Jewish Bible
I am here for you, and I will turn toward you; then you will be tilled and sown;

Easy-to-Read Version
I am with you, and I will help you. People will till your soil and plant seeds in you.

George Lamsa Translation
For, behold, I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown;

Good News Translation
I am on your side, and I will make sure that your land is plowed again and crops are planted on it.

Lexham English Bible
For look! I am for you, and I will turn you, and you will be tilled, and you will be planted.

Literal Translation
For behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Beholde, I come vnto you, and vnto you will I turne me, that ye maye be tylled and sowen.

American Standard Version
For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown;

Bible in Basic English
For truly I am for you, and I will be turned to you, and you will be ploughed and planted:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown;

King James Version (1611)
For behold, I am for you, and I will turne vnto you, and ye shall be tilled and sowen.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Beholde I come vnto you, and vnto you wyll I turne my face, that ye may be tilled and sowen.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For, behold, I am toward you, and I will have respect to you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:

English Revised Version
For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:

World English Bible
For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn into you, and you shall be tilled and sown;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For lo! Y to you, and Y schal turne to you, and ye schulen be erid, and schulen take seed.

Update Bible Version
For, look, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown;

Webster's Bible Translation
For behold, I [am] for you, and I will turn to you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:

New English Translation
For indeed, I am on your side; I will turn to you, and you will be plowed and planted.

New King James Version
For indeed I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown.

New Living Translation
See, I care about you, and I will pay attention to you. Your ground will be plowed and your crops planted.

New Life Bible
See, I care for you and will show you favor. You will be plowed and planted.

New Revised Standard
See now, I am for you; I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For lo! I am towards you, Therefore will I turn towards you, And ye shall be tilled and sewn;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be ploughed and sown.

Revised Standard Version
For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown;

Young's Literal Translation
For, lo, I [am] for you, and have turned to you, And ye have been tilled and sown.

Contextual Overview

¹ And thou, son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say, Mountains of Israel, hear the word of Jehovah. ² Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha! and, The ancient high places are become ours in possession; ³ therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because, yea, because they have made [you] desolate, and have swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the remnant of the nations, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and in the defaming of the people: ⁴ therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Jehovah. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to the mountains and to the hills, to the water-courses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and a derision to the remnant of the nations that are round about, ⁵ —therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the remnant of the nations, and against the whole of Edom, which have appointed my land unto themselves for a possession with the joy of all [their] heart, with despite of soul, to plunder it by pillage. ⁶ Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the water-courses and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the ignominy of the nations; ⁷ therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I have lifted up my hand, [saying,] Verily the nations that are about you, they shall bear their shame. ⁸ 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. ⁹ For behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown. ¹⁰ And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, the whole of it; and the cities shall be inhabited, and the waste places shall be builded.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 46:11, Psalms 99:8, Hosea 2:21-23, Joel 3:18, Haggai 2:19, Zechariah 8:12, Malachi 3:10, Malachi 3:11, Romans 8:31

Reciprocal: Isaiah 49:19 - thy waste Jeremiah 31:27 - that I Ezekiel 36:29 - call Malachi 1:3 - laid

Cross-References

Genesis 19:37
And the first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites to this day.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For, behold, I am for you,.... For the mountains, that they might be cultivated and become fruitful, and be of advantage to their proprietors, and appear beautiful and lovely to behold, as well as to be useful:

and I will turn unto you; the Lord had turned from them, and left them a prey to the enemy, whereby they were become desolate; but now he would turn unto them, and bless them, and make them fruitful, and return the right owners of them to them, who should greatly improve them:

and ye shall be tilled and sown; manured and cultivated, and sown with wheat and barley, as in former times.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 36:9. Ye shall be tilled and sown — The land shall be cultivated as it formerly was, when best peopled and at peace.