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Ezekiel 36:11

I will fill you with people and animals, and they will multiply and be fruitful. I will make you as inhabited as you once were, and I will make you prosper more than before. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

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ASV

and I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited after your former estate, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

KJV

And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְהִרְבֵּיתִ֧יve.hir.bei.Tiand I will multiplyH7235 →
עֲלֵיכֶ֛ם'a.lei.Khemon youH5921 →
אָדָ֥ם'a.Damhuman[s]H120 →
וּבְהֵמָ֖הu.ve.he.Mahand animal[s]H929 →
וְרָב֣וּve.ra.Vuand they will increaseH7235 →
וּפָר֑וּu.fa.Ruand they will be fruitfulH6509 →
וְהוֹשַׁבְתִּ֨יve.ho.shav.Tiand I will cause to dwellH3427 →
אֶתְכֶ֜ם'et.Khem<obj.> youH853 →
כְּקַדְמֽוֹתֵיכֶ֗םke.kad.mo.tei.Khemlike former state yourH6927 →
וְהֵטִֽבֹתִי֙ve.he.ti.vo.Tiand I will do goodH3190 →
מֵרִאשֹׁ֣תֵיכֶ֔םme.ri.Sho.tei.Khemmore than beginnings yourH7221 →
וִֽידַעְתֶּ֖םvi.da'.Temand you will knowH3045 →
כִּֽי־ki-thatH3588 →
אֲנִ֥י'a.NiIH589 →
יְהוָֽה׃Yah.weh[am] YahwehH3068 →

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Jeremiah 33:12This is what the LORD of Hosts says: In this desolate place, without man or beast, and in all its cities, there will once more be pastures for shepherds to rest their flocks.Jeremiah 23:5–8Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness in the land.Micah 7:14Shepherd with Your staff Your people, the flock of Your inheritance. They live alone in a woodland, surrounded by pastures. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.Jeremiah 31:27“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and of beast.Ezekiel 37:13Then you, My people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them.Hosea 2:20And I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will know the LORD.”Jeremiah 30:18This is what the LORD says: “I will restore the fortunes of Jacob’s tents and have compassion on his dwellings. And the city will be rebuilt on her own ruins, and the palace will stand in its rightful place.Ezekiel 16:55And your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will return to their former state. You and your daughters will also return to your former state.Amos 9:15I will firmly plant them in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land that I have given them,” says the LORD your God.Job 42:12So the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.Ezekiel 36:35Then they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and destroyed are now fortified and inhabited.’Zechariah 8:11–15But now I will not treat the remnant of this people as I did in the past,” declares the LORD of Hosts.Hebrews 8:8–13But God found fault with the people and said: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.Hebrews 11:40God had planned something better for us, so that together with us they would be made perfect.Isaiah 30:26The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day that the LORD binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds He has inflicted.Joel 3:18–21And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.Isaiah 52:4–6For this is what the Lord GOD says: “At first My people went down to Egypt to live, then Assyria oppressed them without cause.Isaiah 54:7–10“For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back.

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