Ezekiel 36:11

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I will increase the number of people and animals on you; they will increase and be fruitful. I will cause you to be inhabited as in ancient times, and will do more good for you than at the beginning of your history. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

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  • Mic 7:14 : 14 Shepherd your people with your rod, the flock that belongs to you, the one that lives alone in a thicket, in the midst of a pastureland. Allow them to graze in Bashan and Gilead, as they did in the old days.
  • Jer 33:12 : 12 “I, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, say:‘This place will indeed lie in ruins. There will be no people or animals in it. But there will again be in it and in its towns sheepfolds where shepherds can rest their sheep.
  • Ezek 16:55 : 55 As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters will be restored to their former status, Samaria and her daughters will be restored to their former status, and you and your daughters will be restored to your former status.
  • Jer 30:18 : 18 The Lord Will Restore Israel and Judah The LORD says,“I will restore the ruined houses of the descendants of Jacob. I will show compassion on their ruined homes. Every city will be rebuilt on its former ruins. Every fortified dwelling will occupy its traditional site.
  • Jer 31:27 : 27 Israel and Judah Will Be Repopulated“Indeed, a time is coming,” says the LORD,“when I will cause people and animals to sprout up in the lands of Israel and Judah.
  • Jer 31:38-40 : 38 Jerusalem Will Be Enlarged“Indeed a time is coming,” says the LORD,“when the city of Jerusalem will be rebuilt as my special city. It will be built from the Tower of Hananel westward to the Corner Gate. 39 The boundary line will extend beyond that, straight west from there to the Hill of Gareb and then turn southward to Goah. 40 The whole valley where dead bodies and sacrificial ashes are thrown and all the terraced fields out to the Kidron Valley on the east as far north as the corner of the Horse Gate will be included within this city that is sacred to the LORD. The city will never again be torn down or destroyed.”
  • Ezek 35:9 : 9 I will turn you into a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
  • Ezek 36:35 : 35 They will say,“This desolate land has become like the garden of Eden; the ruined, desolate, and destroyed cities are now fortified and inhabited.”
  • Ezek 37:6 : 6 I will put tendons on you and muscles over you and will cover you with skin; I will put breath in you and you will live. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
  • Ezek 37:13 : 13 Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and raise you from your graves, my people.
  • Hos 2:20 : 20 I will commit myself to you in faithfulness; then you will acknowledge the LORD.”
  • Joel 3:18-21 : 18 On that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the dry stream beds of Judah will flow with water. A spring will flow out from the temple of the LORD, watering the Valley of Acacia Trees. 19 Egypt will be desolate and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, because of the violence they did to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood. 20 But Judah will reside securely forever, and Jerusalem will be secure from one generation to the next. 21 I will avenge their blood which I had not previously acquitted.It is the LORD who dwells in Zion!
  • Amos 9:15 : 15 I will plant them on their land and they will never again be uprooted from the land I have given them,”says the LORD your God.
  • Obad 1:19-21 : 19 The people of the Negev will take possession of Esau’s mountain, and the people of the foothills will take possession of the land of the Philistines. They will also take possession of the territory of Ephraim and the territory of Samaria, and the people of Benjamin will take possession of Gilead. 20 The exiles of this fortress of the people of Israel will take possession of what belongs to the people of Canaan, as far as Zarephath, and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will take possession of the towns of the Negev. 21 Those who have been delivered will go up on Mount Zion in order to rule over Esau’s mountain.Then the LORD will reign as King!
  • Hag 2:6-9 : 6 Moreover, this is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has said:“In just a little while I will once again shake the sky and the earth, the sea and the dry ground. 7 I will also shake up all the nations, and they will offer their treasures; then I will fill this temple with glory.” So the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has said. 8 “The silver and gold will be mine,” decrees the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. 9 “The future splendor of this temple will be greater than that of former times,” the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has declared.“And in this place I will give peace,” decrees the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.”
  • Zech 8:11-15 : 11 But I will be different now to this remnant of my people from the way I was in those days,’ says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, 12 ‘for there will be a peaceful time of sowing, the vine will produce its fruit, and the ground its yield, and the skies will rain down dew. Then I will allow the remnant of my people to possess all these things. 13 And it will come about that just as you(both Judah and Israel) were a curse to the nations, so I will save you and you will be a blessing. Do not be afraid! Instead, be strong!’ 14 “For the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says,‘As I had planned to hurt you when your fathers made me angry,’ says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,‘and I was not sorry, 15 so, to the contrary, I have planned in these days to do good to Jerusalem and Judah– do not fear!
  • Heb 8:8-9 : 8 But showing its fault, God says to them,“Look, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will complete a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. 9 “It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord. 10 “For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and I will inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people. 11 “And there will be no need at all for each one to teach his countryman or each one to teach his brother saying,‘Know the Lord,’ since they will all know me, from the least to the greatest. 12 “For I will be merciful toward their evil deeds, and their sins I will remember no longer.” 13 When he speaks of a new covenant, he makes the first obsolete. Now what is growing obsolete and aging is about to disappear.
  • Heb 11:40 : 40 For God had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us.
  • 1 John 5:20 : 20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.
  • Job 42:12 : 12 So the LORD blessed the second part of Job’s life more than the first. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
  • Isa 30:26 : 26 The light of the full moon will be like the sun’s glare and the sun’s glare will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, when the LORD binds up his people’s fractured bones and heals their severe wound.
  • Isa 52:4-6 : 4 For this is what the Sovereign LORD says:“In the beginning my people went to live temporarily in Egypt; Assyria oppressed them for no good reason. 5 And now, what do we have here?” says the LORD.“Indeed my people have been carried away for nothing, those who rule over them taunt,” says the LORD,“and my name is constantly slandered all day long. 6 For this reason my people will know my name, for this reason they will know at that time that I am the one who says,‘Here I am.’”
  • Isa 54:7-9 : 7 “For a short time I abandoned you, but with great compassion I will gather you. 8 In a burst of anger I rejected you momentarily, but with lasting devotion I will have compassion on you,” says your protector, the LORD. 9 “As far as I am concerned, this is like in Noah’s time, when I vowed that the waters of Noah’s flood would never again cover the earth. In the same way I have vowed that I will not be angry at you or shout at you. 10 Even if the mountains are removed and the hills displaced, my devotion will not be removed from you, nor will my covenant of friendship be displaced,” says the LORD, the one who has compassion on you.
  • Jer 23:5-8 : 5 “I, the LORD, promise that a new time will certainly come when I will raise up for them a righteous branch, a descendant of David. He will rule over them with wisdom and understanding and will do what is just and right in the land. 6 Under his rule Judah will enjoy safety and Israel will live in security. This is the name he will go by:‘The LORD has provided us with justice.’ 7 “So I, the LORD, say:‘A new time will certainly come. People now affirm their oaths with“I swear as surely as the LORD lives who delivered the people of Israel out of Egypt.” 8 But at that time they will affirm them with“I swear as surely as the LORD lives who delivered the descendants of the former nation of Israel from the land of the north and from all the other lands where he had banished them.” At that time they will live in their own land.’”

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    8“‘But you, mountains of Israel, will grow your branches, and bear your fruit for my people Israel; for they will arrive soon.

    9For indeed, I am on your side; I will turn to you, and you will be plowed and planted.

    10I will multiply your people– the whole house of Israel, all of it. The cities will be populated and the ruins rebuilt.

  • Ezek 36:33-38
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    33“‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: In the day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will populate the cities and the ruins will be rebuilt.

    34The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

    35They will say,“This desolate land has become like the garden of Eden; the ruined, desolate, and destroyed cities are now fortified and inhabited.”

    36Then the nations which remain around you will know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt the ruins and replanted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken– and I will do it!’

    37“This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will allow the house of Israel to ask me to do this for them: I will multiply their people like sheep.

    38Like the sheep for offerings, like the sheep of Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so will the ruined cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”

  • Ezek 36:28-30
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    28Then you will live in the land I gave to your fathers; you will be my people, and I will be your God.

    29I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain and multiply it; I will not bring a famine on you.

    30I will multiply the fruit of the trees and the produce of the fields, so that you will never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations.

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    12I will lead people, my people Israel, across you; they will possess you and you will become their inheritance. No longer will you bereave them of their children.

  • Jer 31:27
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    27Israel and Judah Will Be Repopulated“Indeed, a time is coming,” says the LORD,“when I will cause people and animals to sprout up in the lands of Israel and Judah.

  • Ezek 34:26-31
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    26I will turn them and the regions around my hill into a blessing. I will make showers come down in their season; they will be showers that bring blessing.

    27The trees of the field will yield their fruit and the earth will yield its crops. They will live securely on their land; they will know that I am the LORD, when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hand of those who enslaved them.

    28They will no longer be prey for the nations and the wild beasts will not devour them. They will live securely and no one will make them afraid.

    29I will prepare for them a healthy planting. They will no longer be victims of famine in the land and will no longer bear the insults of the nations.

    30Then they will know that I, the LORD their God, am with them, and that they are my people, the house of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD.

    31And you, my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are my people, and I am your God, declares the Sovereign LORD.’”

  • Deut 28:11
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    11The LORD will greatly multiply your children, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil in the land which he promised your ancestors he would give you.

  • Lev 26:9
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    9I will turn to you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and maintain my covenant with you.

  • Jer 30:19
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    19Out of those places you will hear songs of thanksgiving and the sounds of laughter and merriment. I will increase their number and they will not dwindle away. I will bring them honor and they will no longer be despised.

  • Ezek 36:16
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    16The LORD’s message came to me:

  • Deut 11:15
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    15I will provide pasture for your livestock and you will eat your fill.”

  • Zech 8:12
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    12‘for there will be a peaceful time of sowing, the vine will produce its fruit, and the ground its yield, and the skies will rain down dew. Then I will allow the remnant of my people to possess all these things.

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    26They will live securely in it; they will build houses and plant vineyards. They will live securely when I execute my judgments on all those who scorn them and surround them. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God.’”

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    14I will place my breath in you and you will live; I will give you rest in your own land. Then you will know that I am the LORD– I have spoken and I will act, declares the LORD.’”

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    7I made you plentiful like sprouts in a field; you grew tall and came of age so that you could wear jewelry. Your breasts had formed and your hair had grown, but you were still naked and bare.

  • Deut 30:9
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    9The LORD your God will make the labor of your hands abundantly successful and multiply your children, the offspring of your cattle, and the produce of your soil. For the LORD will once more rejoice over you to make you prosperous just as he rejoiced over your ancestors,

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    37They cultivated fields, and planted vineyards, which yielded a harvest of fruit.

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    10“I, the LORD, say:‘You and your people are saying about this place,“It lies in ruins. There are no people or animals in it.” That is true. The towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem will soon be desolate, uninhabited either by people or by animals. But happy sounds will again be heard in these places.

  • Isa 30:23
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    23He will water the seed you plant in the ground, and the ground will produce crops in abundance. At that time your cattle will graze in wide pastures.

  • Lev 26:4-6
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    4I will give you your rains in their time so that the land will give its yield and the trees of the field will produce their fruit.

    5Threshing season will extend for you until the season for harvesting grapes, and the season for harvesting grapes will extend until sowing season, so you will eat your bread until you are satisfied, and you will live securely in your land.

    6I will grant peace in the land so that you will lie down to sleep without anyone terrifying you. I will remove harmful animals from the land, and no sword of war will pass through your land.

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    6I will put tendons on you and muscles over you and will cover you with skin; I will put breath in you and you will live. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

  • Deut 7:13
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    13He will love and bless you, and make you numerous. He will bless you with many children, with the produce of your soil, your grain, your new wine, your oil, the offspring of your oxen, and the young of your flocks in the land which he promised your ancestors to give you.

  • Jer 33:12
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    12“I, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, say:‘This place will indeed lie in ruins. There will be no people or animals in it. But there will again be in it and in its towns sheepfolds where shepherds can rest their sheep.

  • Amos 9:14-15
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    14I will bring back my people, Israel; they will rebuild the cities lying in rubble and settle down. They will plant vineyards and drink the wine they produce; they will grow orchards and eat the fruit they produce.

    15I will plant them on their land and they will never again be uprooted from the land I have given them,”says the LORD your God.

  • Ezek 22:16
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    16You will be profaned within yourself in the sight of the nations; then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

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    24“‘I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries; then I will bring you to your land.

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    21On that day I will make Israel powerful, and I will give you the right to be heard among them. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”

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    62I will establish my covenant with you, and then you will know that I am the LORD.

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    4Your children will be blessed, as well as the produce of your soil, the offspring of your livestock, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.

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    3Then I myself will regather those of my people who are still alive from all the countries where I have driven them. I will bring them back to their homeland. They will greatly increase in number.

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    26I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be a perpetual covenant with them. I will establish them, increase their numbers, and place my sanctuary among them forever.

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    9I will turn you into a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

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    7your cattle, and the wild animals that are in your land– all its produce will be for you to eat.