Ezekiel 36 · Verse 34

Ezekiel 36:34

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

Ezekiel 36:34 in other translations

BSBThe desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through.
WEBThe land that was desolate will be tilled instead of being a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.
ASVAnd the land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all that passed by.
YLTAnd the desolate land is tilled, Instead of which it was a desolation before the eyes of every passer by,
DARBYAnd the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all that passed by.
BBEAnd the land which was waste will be farmed, in place of being a waste in the eyes of everyone who went by.
WebsterAnd the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.

What does Ezekiel 36:34 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 36:25-38

Water is an emblem of the cleansing our polluted souls from sin. But no water can do more than take away the filth of the flesh. Water seems in general the sacramental sign of the sanctifying influences of the Holy Ghost; yet this is always connected with the atoning blood of Christ. When the latter is applied by faith to the conscience, to cleanse it from evil works, the former is always applied to the powers of…

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Ezekiel 36:34 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְהָאָ֥רֶץve.ha.'A.retzand the landH776
הַנְּשַׁמָּ֖הha.ne.sha.Mah<the> desolatedH8074
תֵּֽעָבֵ֑דte.'a.Vedit will be tilledH5647
תַּ֚חַתTa.chatin place ofH8478
אֲשֶׁ֣ר'a.SherthatH834
הָיְתָ֣הha.ye.Tahit wasH1961
שְׁמָמָ֔הshe.ma.Maha desolationH8077
לְעֵינֵ֖יle.'ei.Neito [the] eyes ofH5869
כָּל\־kol-everyH3605
עוֹבֵֽר\׃o.Ver[one who] passes byH5674

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Ezekiel 36:34

  • Ezekiel 6:14

    So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

  • Jeremiah 25:9-11

    Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations. Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle. And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

  • Deuteronomy 29:23-28

    And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger? Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them: …

  • 2 Chronicles 36:21

    To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.

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6:14; De 29:23-28; 2Ch 36:21; Jer 25:9-11

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Context

  • Ezekiel 36:33

    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.

  • Ezekiel 36:34

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

  • Ezekiel 36:35

    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.

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Ezekiel 36:34 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y la tierra asolada será labrada, en lugar de haber sido asolada en ojos de todos los que pasaron;
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
et le pays désert sera labouré, au lieu d’être une désolation aux yeux de tous les passants.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und das verwüstete Land soll bebaut werden, statt daß es eine Wüste war vor den Augen jedes Vorüberziehenden.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
et terra deserta fuerit exculta, quæ quondam erat desolata in oculis omnis viatoris,