Ezekiel 36:34Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

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

וְהָאָ֥רֶץ הַנְּשַׁמָּ֖ה תֵּֽעָבֵ֑ד תַּ֚חַת אֲשֶׁ֣ר הָיְתָ֣ה שְׁמָמָ֔ה לְעֵינֵ֖י כָּל־עוֹבֵֽר׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

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Theodoret of Cyrus

5th centuryChurch Father

When God declares that He grants you forgiveness of sins and through His mercy cleanses you, He will provide structures for the towns and cultivate the land; and instead of the prior devastation that has been witnessed by all who pass through, it shall be filled with inhabitants.

Cross references

Passages read together with this verse.

Ezek 6:14And I will stretch forth my hand upon them: and I will make the land desolate, and abandoned from the desert of Deblatha in all their dwelling places: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
Jer 25:9Behold I will send, and take all the kindreds of the north, saith the Lord, and Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon my servant: and I will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all the nations that are round about it: and I will destroy them, and make them an astonishment and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Jer 25:11And all this land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment: and all these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
2 Chr 36:21That the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, and the land might keep her sabbaths: for all the days of the desolation she kept a sabbath, till the seventy years were expired.
Deut 29:23Burning it with brimstone, and the heat of salt, so that it cannot be sown any more, nor any green thing grow therein, after the example of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord destroyed in his wrath and indignation:
Deut 29:28And he hath cast them out of their land, in anger and in wrath, and in very great indignation, and hath thrown them into a strange land, as it is seen this day.