Ezekiel 36:9

Bishop's Bible

Beholde I come vnto you, and vnto you wyll I turne my face, that ye may be tilled and sowen.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
I am with you, and I will help you. People will till your soil and plant seeds in you.

New Living Translation
See, I care about you, and I will pay attention to you. Your ground will be plowed and your crops planted.

New American Standard Bible
'For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you will be cultivated and sown.

New Century Version
I am concerned about you; I am on your side. You will be plowed, and seed will be planted in you.

New English Translation
For indeed, I am on your side; I will turn to you, and you will be plowed and planted.

Update Bible Version
For, look, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown;

Webster's Bible Translation
For behold, I [am] for you, and I will turn to you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:

Amplified Bible
'For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you [in favor], and you shall be cultivated and sown.

English Standard Version
For behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown.

World English Bible
For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn into you, and you shall be tilled and sown;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For lo! Y to you, and Y schal turne to you, and ye schulen be erid, and schulen take seed.

English Revised Version
For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:

Berean Standard Bible
For behold, I am on your side; I will turn toward you, and you will be tilled and sown.

Contemporary English Version
I will take care of you by plowing your soil and planting crops on your fertile slopes.

American Standard Version
For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown;

Bible in Basic English
For truly I am for you, and I will be turned to you, and you will be ploughed and planted:

Complete Jewish Bible
I am here for you, and I will turn toward you; then you will be tilled and sown;

Darby Translation
For behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown;

King James Version (1611)
For behold, I am for you, and I will turne vnto you, and ye shall be tilled and sowen.

New Life Bible
See, I care for you and will show you favor. You will be plowed and planted.

New Revised Standard
See now, I am for you; I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown;

Geneva Bible (1587)
For behold, I come vnto you, & I wil turne vnto you, and ye shalbe tilled and sowen.

George Lamsa Translation
For, behold, I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For lo! I am towards you, Therefore will I turn towards you, And ye shall be tilled and sewn;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be ploughed and sown.

Revised Standard Version
For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown;

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For, behold, I am toward you, and I will have respect to you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:

Good News Translation
I am on your side, and I will make sure that your land is plowed again and crops are planted on it.

Christian Standard Bible®
Look! I am on your side; I will turn toward you, and you will be tilled and sown.

Hebrew Names Version
For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn into you, and you shall be tilled and sown;

King James Version
For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:

Lexham English Bible
For look! I am for you, and I will turn you, and you will be tilled, and you will be planted.

Literal Translation
For behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown.

Young's Literal Translation
For, lo, I [am] for you, and have turned to you, And ye have been tilled and sown.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Beholde, I come vnto you, and vnto you will I turne me, that ye maye be tylled and sowen.

New King James Version
For indeed I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you will be cultivated and sown.

Legacy Standard Bible
For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you will be cultivated and sown.

Contextual Overview

¹ Thou sonne of man prophecie vnto the mountaines of Israel, and speake, heare the worde of the lord O ye mountaines of Israel. ² Thus saith the Lord God: Because your enemie hath saide vpon you aha, the hie places of the worlde are now become ours in possession: ³ Prophecie therefore and speake, thus saith the Lorde God: For because that they haue made you desolate, and swalowed you vp on euery side, that ye might be a possession vnto the residue of the gentiles, and ye are taken vp in the lippes and tongues of men, and to the reproche of the people: ⁴ Therefore heare the worde of the Lorde God, O ye mountaines of Israel, thus saith the Lorde God to the mountaines and hils, to the riuers and valleys, to the waste and desolate places, and to the cities that are forsaken, which are spoyled and had in derision on euery side, among the residue of the heathen: ⁵ Therefore thus saith the Lorde God: Surely in the fire of my gelousie haue I spoken against the residue of the gentiles, and against all Edom, which haue appoynted my lande for their possession, which also reioyced from their whole heart with a dispitefull stomake, to cast it out for a pray. ⁶ Prophecie therefore vpon the lande of Israel, and speake vnto the mountaines and hils, to the riuers and dales, thus saith the Lorde God: Behold, this haue I spoken in my gelousie and terrible wrath, because ye haue borne the shame of the heathen: ⁷ Therefore thus saith the Lorde God, I haue lyft vp my hande, surely the heathen that are about you, shall beare their shame. ⁸ But you, O mountaynes of Israel, ye shall shoote out your braunches, and bring foorth your fruite to my people of Israel: for they are at hande to come. ⁹ Beholde I come vnto you, and vnto you wyll I turne my face, that ye may be tilled and sowen. ¹⁰ I wyll multiplie men vpon you, [euen] al the house of Israel wholly, the cities shalbe inhabited, and the decayed places shalbe repaired againe.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 46:11, Psalms 99:8, Hosea 2:21-23, Joel 3:18, Haggai 2:19, Zechariah 8:12, Malachi 3:10, Malachi 3:11, Romans 8:31

Reciprocal: Isaiah 49:19 - thy waste Jeremiah 31:27 - that I Ezekiel 36:29 - call Malachi 1:3 - laid

Cross-References

Genesis 19:37
And the elder bare a sonne, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites vnto this day.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For, behold, I am for you,.... For the mountains, that they might be cultivated and become fruitful, and be of advantage to their proprietors, and appear beautiful and lovely to behold, as well as to be useful:

and I will turn unto you; the Lord had turned from them, and left them a prey to the enemy, whereby they were become desolate; but now he would turn unto them, and bless them, and make them fruitful, and return the right owners of them to them, who should greatly improve them:

and ye shall be tilled and sown; manured and cultivated, and sown with wheat and barley, as in former times.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 36:9. Ye shall be tilled and sown — The land shall be cultivated as it formerly was, when best peopled and at peace.