Ezekiel 36:1-17
mountains ....... mountains <02022> [the mountains.]
hear <08085> [hear.]
enemy <0341> [Because.]
ancient <05769> [even.]
[our's.]
desolate <08074> [Because. Heb. Because for because.]
desolate <08074> [they have made.]
crushed <07602> [swallowed.]
become <05927> [and ye.]
become ..... gossip <08193 03956 05927> [taken up in the lips of talkers. or, made to come upon the lip of the tongue. and are.]
mountains .................... mountains <02022> [mountains.]
ravines <0650> [rivers. or, bottoms, or dales. desolate.]
prey <0957> [a prey.]
fire <0784> [Surely.]
rest <07611> [against the.]
Edom <0123> [against all.]
made <05414> [appointed.]
joy <08057> [with the.]
utter <07589> [with despiteful.]
endure <05375> [I have lifted.]
nations <01471> [the heathen.]
grow <05414> [ye shall.]
<07126> [for.]
The Edomites, and other enemies of the Jews, who thought they would soon be in possession of the whole land of Judea, might be assured that the predicted seventy years of the captivity were wearing away, and the time would soon arrive when the Jews would repossess and cultivate their own land, and eat its fruits.
<07126> [at hand.]
multiply <07235> [I will.]
ruins <02723> [the wastes.]
increase ............ increase <07235> [I will multiply.]
inhabited <03427> [and I will settle.]
The circumstances of the Jews were never so prosperous after the captivity as they had been before; hence this prophecy must refer to the times of the Gospel and the future conversion and restoration of the Jews.
more good <02895> [will do.]
know <03045> [and ye.]
people <0120> [I will cause.]
The prophet is still personifying the mountains, valleys, and wastes of Judea.
possess <03423> [they shall.]
<03254> [no more.]
<07921> [no more.]
<07921> [bereave. or, cause to fail.]
I ..... subject <08085> [men.]
bear <05375> [thou bear.]
defiled <02930> [they defiled.]
uncleanness <02932> [as the.]
