Ezekiel 36:34
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New International Version (©2011)
The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through it.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The fields that used to lie empty and desolate in plain view of everyone will again be farmed.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, instead of being the desolation that it was in the sight of all who passed by.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"The desolate land will be cultivated instead of being a desolation in the sight of everyone who passes by.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The desolate fields will be cultivated, replacing the former wasteland that everyone who passed by in times past had noticed.

NET Bible (©2006)
The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The wasteland will be plowed. It will no longer remain empty for everyone passing by to see.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the desolate land shall be tilled, instead of lying desolate in the sight of all that passed by.

American King James Version
And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.

American Standard Version
And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all that passed by.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the desolate land shall be tilled, which before was waste in the sight of all that passed by,

Darby Bible Translation
And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all that passed by.

English Revised Version
And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all that passed by.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.

World English Bible
The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.

Young's Literal Translation
And the desolate land is tilled, Instead of which it was a desolation before the eyes of every passer by,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

36:25-38 Water is an emblem of the cleansing our polluted souls from sin. But no water can do more than take away the filth of the flesh. Water seems in general the sacramental sign of the sanctifying influences of the Holy Ghost; yet this is always connected with the atoning blood of Christ. When the latter is applied by faith to the conscience, to cleanse it from evil works, the former is always applied to the powers of the soul, to purify it from the pollution of sin. All that have an interest in the new covenant, have a new heart and a new spirit, in order to their walking in newness of life. God would give a heart of flesh, a soft and tender heart, complying with his holy will. Renewing grace works as great a change in the soul, as the turning a dead stone into living flesh. God will put his Spirit within, as a Teacher, Guide, and Sanctifier. The promise of God's grace to fit us for our duty, should quicken our constant care and endeavour to do our duty. These are promises to be pleaded by, and will be fulfilled to, all true believers in every age.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the desolate land shall be tilled,.... The land of Judea, which lay desolate during the captivity, and which now is under the dominion of the Turks, and in a ruinous state, shall be manured and cultivated, and become fruitful, as it formerly was: or the people of the Jews, who, in a spiritual sense, are like barren and uncultivated ground; these shall have the fallow ground of their hearts ploughed up, and the seeds of grace, truth, and righteousness, shall be sown in them, and they shall bring forth the fruit of good works:

whereas it lay desolate in the eyes of all that passed by: as the land of Canaan now does to every traveller in it, that observes it, and compares it with what it once was; and as the present state of the Jews is, in the eyes of every Christian pilgrim and traveller, that takes notice of their blindness and ignorance, their unbelief and hardness of heart.

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A New Heart and Spirit
…33Thus said the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be built. 34And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. 35And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited. …

Ezekiel 36:9 I am concerned for you and will look on you with favor; you will be plowed and sown,
Ezekiel 36:33 "'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: On the day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will resettle your towns, and the ruins will be rebuilt.
Ezekiel 36:35 They will say, "This land that was laid waste has become like the garden of Eden; the cities that were lying in ruins, desolate and destroyed, are now fortified and inhabited."