Ezekiel 36:37-38
New English Translation
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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- 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.”
- Ezekiel 36:37 sn Heb “I will multiply them like sheep, human(s).”
Ezekiel 36:37-38
English Standard Version
37 “Thus says the Lord God: This also (A)I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: (B)to increase their people like (C)a flock. 38 Like the flock for sacrifices,[a] (D)like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so (E)shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of people. (F)Then they will know that I am the Lord.”
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- Ezekiel 36:38 Hebrew flock of holy things
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