King James Version
Ezekiel 36:34 in the King James Version says “And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 36 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.”
Ezekiel 36:34 · King James Version
Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.
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.
And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
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 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.
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“And the desolate”
H8074to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e., devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
“shall be tilled”
H5647to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc
the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“in the sight”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“of all that passed by”
H5674to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in
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