Study Desk

'This is what the Lord GOD says: "On the day that I cleanse you from all your wrongdoings, I will populate the cities, and the places of ruins will be rebuilt.

Thus 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.

"The desolated land will be cultivated instead of being a desolation in the sight of everyone who passes by.

And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.

"And they will say, 'This desolated land has become like the Garden of Eden; and the waste, desolated and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.'

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.

"Then the nations around you that are left will know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt the ruined places and planted that which was desolated; I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it."

Then 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.