37 ‘This is what the Lord God says: “This too I will let the house of Israel ask Me to do for them: I will increase their people like a flock. 38 Like the (A)flock [a]for sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so will the waste cities be filled with (B)flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”’”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 36:38 Lit of holy things

37 “This is what the Lord God says: I will respond to the house of Israel and do this for them:(A) I will multiply them in number like a flock.[a] 38 So the ruined cities will be filled with a flock of people, just as the flock of sheep for sacrifice(B) is filled[b] in Jerusalem during its appointed festivals. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”

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  1. Ezekiel 36:37 Lit flock of people
  2. Ezekiel 36:38 Lit the flock of consecrated things, as the flock

37 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Once again I will yield to Israel’s plea(A) and do this for them: I will make their people as numerous as sheep,(B) 38 as numerous as the flocks for offerings(C) 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.(D)

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