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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