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Ezekiel 36:33
This is what the Lord GOD says: On the day I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be resettled and the ruins to be rebuilt.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The Lord GOD speaks to the house of Israel through Ezekiel, immediately after declaring that His coming restoration will not be for their merit but to provoke shame for their ways.
The words — טַהֲרִי (ta.ha.Ri) translates literally as "I will cleanse," and בְּיוֹם (be./yOm) means "on the day," anchoring the promise to a specific divine action.
The thread — The promise of ruined cities being resettled and rebuilt appears in Ezekiel 36:10 and Isaiah 58:12, while Jeremiah 33:10 contrasts the current description of a place as a wasteland without man or beast with a future reality.
Why it lands — It demands recognition that physical restoration follows divine cleansing, requiring the reader to accept that renewal originates from God’s initiative rather than human effort.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Thus saith the Lord God; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.
Cross-references
- Isaiah 58:12 Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; you will restore the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of the Streets of Dwelling.
- Ezekiel 36:10 I will multiply the people upon you—the house of Israel in its entirety. The cities will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.
- Jeremiah 33:10 This is what the LORD says: In this place you say is a wasteland without man or beast, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted—inhabited by neither man nor beast—there will be heard again
- Zechariah 8:7 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will save My people from the land of the east and from the land of the west.
- Jeremiah 32:43 And fields will be bought in this land about which you are saying, ‘It is a desolation, without man or beast; it has been delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans.’
- Jeremiah 50:19 I will return Israel to his pasture, and he will graze on Carmel and Bashan; his soul will be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and Gilead.
- Amos 9:14 I will restore My people Israel from captivity; they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.