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Ezekiel 36:35

Then 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.’

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ASV

And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.

KJV

And 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.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְאָמְר֗וּve.'a.me.Ruand people will sayH559 →
הָאָ֤רֶץha.'A.retzthe landH776 →
הַלֵּ֙זוּ֙ha.Le.zuthisH1977 →
הַנְּשַׁמָּ֔הha.ne.sha.Mah<the> desolatedH8074 →
הָיְתָ֖הha.ye.Tahit has becomeH1961 →
כְּגַן־ke.gan-like [the] garden ofH1588 →
עֵ֑דֶן'E.denEdenH5731 →
וְהֶעָרִ֧יםve.he.'a.Rimand the citiesH5892 →
הֶחֳרֵב֛וֹתhe.cho.re.Vot<the> wastedH2720 →
וְהַֽנְשַׁמּ֥וֹתve.han.sha.Motand <the> desolatedH8074 →
וְהַנֶּהֱרָס֖וֹתve.ha.ne.he.ra.Sotand <the> broken downH2040 →
בְּצוּר֥וֹתbe.tzu.Rot[are] fortifiedH1219 →
יָשָֽׁבוּ׃ya.Sha.vuthey have remainedH3427 →

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Isaiah 35:1The wilderness and the land will be glad; the desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.Isaiah 58:11The LORD will always guide you; He will satisfy you in a sun-scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.Amos 9:13“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow.Ezekiel 36:11I 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.Isaiah 51:3For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.Jeremiah 33:9So this city will bring Me renown, joy, praise, and glory before all the nations of the earth, who will hear of all the good I do for it. They will tremble in awe because of all the goodness and prosperity that I will provide for it.Joel 2:3Before them a fire devours, and behind them a flame scorches. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland—surely nothing will escape them.Psalms 58:11Then men will say, “There is surely a reward for the righteous! There is surely a God who judges the earth!”Ezekiel 28:13You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation.Joel 2:22Do not be afraid, O beasts of the field, for the open pastures have turned green, the trees bear their fruit, and the fig tree and vine yield their best.Psalms 64:9Then all mankind will fear and proclaim the work of God; so they will ponder what He has done.Ezekiel 37:13Then you, My people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them.Psalms 126:2Then our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with shouts of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”Genesis 13:10And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)Genesis 2:8–9And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.

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The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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