36 Then (A)the nations that are left all around you shall know that I am the Lord; I have rebuilt the ruined places and (B)replanted that which was desolate. (C)I am the Lord; I have spoken, and I will do it.

37 “Thus says the Lord God: This also (D)I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: (E)to increase their people like (F)a flock. 38 Like the flock for sacrifices,[a] (G)like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so (H)shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of people. (I)Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 36:38 Hebrew flock of holy things

36 Then the nations around you that remain will know that I the Lord have rebuilt what was destroyed and have replanted what was desolate. I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it.’(A)

37 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Once again I will yield to Israel’s plea(B) and do this for them: I will make their people as numerous as sheep,(C) 38 as numerous as the flocks for offerings(D) at Jerusalem during her appointed festivals. So will the ruined cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the Lord.(E)

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