Bible Strands
Ezekiel 36:29
I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will summon the grain and make it plentiful, and I will not bring famine upon you.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Yahweh speaks to the restored house of Israel, promising to cleanse them from defilement and provide agricultural abundance before reestablishing covenant residency in the promised land.
The words — The Hebrew verb הוֹשַׁעְתִּי (ho.sha'.Ti) literally means "I will save" or "deliver," while קָרָתִי (ka.Ra.ti) means "I will summon" or "call forth" the grain.
The thread — The text explicitly promises divine intervention to remove defilement and prevent famine, a pattern of God responding to the earth and people that appears in Hosea 2:21 and anticipates the salvation theme in Matthew 1:21.
Why it lands — The verse first states that Yahweh alone removes uncleanness and commands grain to increase, then requires the reader to acknowledge that physical and communal restoration depends entirely on divine action rather than human effort.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
Cross-references
- Hosea 2:21 “On that day I will respond—” declares the LORD—“I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth.
- Matthew 1:21 She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”
- John 1:7 He came as a witness to testify about the Light, so that through him everyone might believe.
- Hosea 14:4 I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.
- Romans 11:26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come from Zion; He will remove godlessness from Jacob.
- Titus 2:14 He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
- Psalms 105:6 O offspring of His servant Abraham, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.
- Jeremiah 33:8 And I will cleanse them from all the iniquity they have committed against Me, and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against Me.
- Ezekiel 34:27 The trees of the field will give their fruit, and the land will yield its produce; My flock will be secure in their land. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bars of their yoke and delivered them from the hands that enslaved them.
- Ezekiel 36:8 But you, O mountains of Israel, will produce branches and bear fruit for My people Israel, for they will soon come home.