Ezekiel 36:37

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

“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.

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  • Ezek 14:3 : 3 “Son of man, these men have erected their idols in their hearts and placed the obstacle leading to their iniquity right before their faces. Should I really allow them to seek me?
  • 1 John 5:14 : 14 And this is the confidence that we have before him: that whenever we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
  • Phil 4:6 : 6 Do not be anxious about anything. Instead, in every situation, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, tell your requests to God.
  • Heb 4:16 : 16 Therefore let us confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace whenever we need help.
  • Heb 10:21-22 : 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in the assurance that faith brings, because we have had our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.
  • Jas 4:2-3 : 2 You desire and you do not have; you murder and envy and you cannot obtain; you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask; 3 you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.
  • Ezek 20:3 : 3 “Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them:‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Are you coming to seek me? As surely as I live, I will not allow you to seek me, declares the Sovereign LORD.’
  • Ezek 20:31 : 31 When you present your sacrifices– when you make your sons pass through the fire– you defile yourselves with all your idols to this very day. Will I allow you to seek me, O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will not allow you to seek me!
  • Zech 10:6 : 6 “I(says the LORD) will strengthen the kingdom of Judah and deliver the people of Joseph and will bring them back because of my compassion for them. They will be as though I had never rejected them, for I am the LORD their God and therefore I will hear them.
  • Zech 10:9 : 9 Though I scatter them among the nations, they will remember in far-off places– they and their children will survive and return.
  • Zech 13:9 : 9 Then I will bring the remaining third into the fire; I will refine them like silver is refined and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name and I will answer; I will say,‘These are my people,’ and they will say,‘The LORD is my God.’”
  • Ps 10:17 : 17 LORD, you have heard the request of the oppressed; you make them feel secure because you listen to their prayer.
  • Ps 102:17 : 17 when he responds to the prayer of the destitute, and does not reject their request.
  • Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Seek the LORD while he makes himself available; call to him while he is nearby! 7 The wicked need to abandon their lifestyle and sinful people their plans. They should return to the LORD, and he will show mercy to them, and to their God, for he will freely forgive them.
  • Jer 29:11-13 : 11 For I know what I have planned for you,’ says the LORD.‘I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I have plans to give you a future filled with hope. 12 When you call out to me and come to me in prayer, I will hear your prayers. 13 When you seek me in prayer and worship, you will find me available to you. If you seek me with all your heart and soul,
  • Jer 50:4-5 : 4 “When that time comes,” says the LORD,“the people of Israel and Judah will return to the land together. They will come back with tears of repentance as they seek the LORD their God. 5 They will ask the way to Zion; they will turn their faces toward it. They will come and bind themselves to the LORD in a lasting covenant that will never be forgotten.
  • Matt 7:7-8 : 7 Ask, Seek, Knock“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 36:38
    84%

    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 36:9-12
    4 verses
    83%

    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.

    11I 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.

    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.

  • Ezek 36:33-36
    4 verses
    78%

    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!’

  • Jer 23:3
    76%

    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.

  • Ezek 34:30-31
    2 verses
    76%

    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.’”

  • Mic 2:12
    75%

    12The Lord Will Restore His People I will certainly gather all of you, O Jacob, I will certainly assemble those Israelites who remain. I will bring them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in the middle of a pasture; they will be so numerous that they will make a lot of noise.

  • Ezek 36:16
    75%

    16The LORD’s message came to me:

  • Ezek 28:25
    74%

    25“‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: When I regather the house of Israel from the peoples where they are dispersed, I will reveal my sovereign power over them in the sight of the nations, and they will live in their land that I gave to my servant Jacob.

  • Ezek 37:21
    73%

    21Then tell them,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look, I am about to take the Israelites from among the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from round about and bring them to their land.

  • Ezek 34:11-17
    7 verses
    73%

    11“‘For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look, I myself will search for my sheep and seek them out.

    12As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out my flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they have been scattered on a cloudy, dark day.

    13I will bring them out from among the peoples and gather them from foreign countries; I will bring them to their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the streams and all the inhabited places of the land.

    14In a good pasture I will feed them; the mountain heights of Israel will be their pasture. There they will lie down in a lush pasture, and they will feed on rich grass on the mountains of Israel.

    15I myself will feed my sheep and I myself will make them lie down, declares the Sovereign LORD.

    16I will seek the lost and bring back the strays; I will bandage the injured and strengthen the sick, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them– with judgment!

    17“‘As for you, my sheep, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look, I am about to judge between one sheep and another, between rams and goats.

  • Jer 30:19
    73%

    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 37:15
    73%

    15The LORD’s message came to me:

  • Jer 33:12
    73%

    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 36:29-30
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

  • Jer 31:27
    72%

    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.

  • Isa 56:8
    72%

    8The Sovereign LORD says this, the one who gathers the dispersed of Israel:“I will still gather them up.”

  • Ezek 39:27
    72%

    27When I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them from the countries of their enemies, I will magnify myself among them in the sight of many nations.

  • Ezek 37:26-28
    3 verses
    72%

    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.

    27My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.

    28Then, when my sanctuary is among them forever, the nations will know that I, the LORD, sanctify Israel.’”

  • Ezek 39:29
    72%

    29I will no longer hide my face from them, when I pour out my Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD.”

  • Zech 10:8
    72%

    8I will signal for them and gather them, for I have already redeemed them; then they will become as numerous as they were before.

  • Ezek 11:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16“Therefore say:‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Although I have removed them far away among the nations and have dispersed them among the countries, I have been a little sanctuary for them among the lands where they have gone.’

    17“Therefore say:‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: When I regather you from the peoples and assemble you from the lands where you have been dispersed, I will give you back the country of Israel.’

  • Ezek 38:23
    71%

    23I will exalt and magnify myself; I will reveal myself before many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’

  • Ezek 36:24
    71%

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

  • Ezek 14:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11so that the house of Israel will no longer go astray from me, nor continue to defile themselves by all their sins. They will be my people and I will be their God, declares the Sovereign LORD.’”

    12The LORD’s message came to me:

  • Jer 31:10
    71%

    10Listen to the LORD’s message, O nations. Proclaim it in the faraway lands along the sea. Say,“The one who scattered Israel will regather them. He will watch over his people like a shepherd watches over his flock.”

  • Jer 50:19
    71%

    19But I will restore the flock of Israel to their own pasture. They will graze on Mount Carmel and the land of Bashan. They will eat until they are full on the hills of Ephraim and the land of Gilead.

  • Ezek 38:8
    71%

    8After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come to a land restored from the ravages of war, from many peoples gathered on the mountains of Israel that had long been in ruins. Its people were brought out from the peoples, and all of them will be living securely.

  • Ezek 29:21
    71%

    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.”

  • Ezek 34:22
    71%

    22I will save my sheep; they will no longer be prey. I will judge between one sheep and another.

  • Ezek 38:16
    70%

    16You will advance against my people Israel like a cloud covering the earth. In the latter days I will bring you against my land so that the nations may acknowledge me, when before their eyes I magnify myself through you, O Gog.

  • Jer 31:1
    70%

    1At that time I will be the God of all the clans of Israel and they will be my people. I, the LORD, affirm it!”

  • Ezek 39:25
    70%

    25“Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob, and I will have mercy on the entire house of Israel. I will be zealous for my holy name.