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37 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will allow the house of Israel to ask me to do this for them:[a] I will multiply their people like sheep.[b] 38 Like the sheep for offerings, like the sheep of Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so the ruined cities will be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

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  1. Ezekiel 36:37 tn The Niphal verb may have a tolerative function here: “Again (for) this I will allow myself to be sought by the house of Israel to act for them.” Or it may be reflexive: “I will reveal myself to the house of Israel by doing this also.”
  2. Ezekiel 36:37 sn Heb “I will multiply them like sheep, human(s).”

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 Jerusalem(B) is filled with a flock of sheep for sacrifice[b] during its appointed festivals. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’”

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

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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