Ezekiel 36:9

Easy-to-Read Version

I am with you, and I will help you. People will till your soil and plant seeds in you.

Parallel Translations

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:

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

George Lamsa Translation
For, behold, I will turn to you, and you 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.

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.

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

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:

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.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Beholde I come vnto you, and vnto you wyll I turne my face, that ye may be tilled and sowen.

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

English Revised Version
For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye 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.

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:

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

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

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 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;

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;

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

Contextual Overview

¹ "Son of man, speak to the mountains of Israel for me. Tell them to listen to the word of the Lord ! ² Tell them that this is what the Lord God says: ‘The enemy said bad things against you. They said, Hurray! Now the ancient mountains will be ours!' ³ "So speak to the mountains of Israel for me. Tell them that this is what the Lord God says: ‘The enemy destroyed your cities and attacked you from every direction. They did this so that you would belong to the other nations. Then people talked and whispered about you.'" ⁴ So, mountains of Israel, listen to the word of the Lord God ! This is what the Lord God says to the mountains, hills, streams, valleys, empty ruins, and abandoned cities that have been looted and laughed at by the other nations around them. ⁵ The Lord God says, "I swear, I will let my strong feelings speak for me! I will let Edom and the other nations feel my anger. They took my land for themselves. They really had a good time when they showed how much they hated this land. They took the land for themselves, just so they could destroy it." ⁶ "So say these things about the land of Israel. Speak to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams, and to the valleys. Tell them that this is what the Lord God says: ‘I will let my strong feelings and anger speak for me, because you had to suffer the insults from those nations.'" ⁷ So this is what the Lord God says: "I am the one making this promise! I swear that the nations around you will have to suffer for those insults. ⁸ "But mountains of Israel, you will grow new trees and produce fruit for my people Israel. My people will soon come back. ⁹ I am with you, and I will help you. People will till your soil and plant seeds in you. ¹⁰ There will be many people living on you. The whole family of Israel—all of them—will live there. The cities will have people living in them. The destroyed places will be rebuilt.

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
The older daughter gave birth to a son. She named him Moab. Moab is the ancestor of all the Moabites living today.

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.