Ezekiel 37:25-28
Context37:25 They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, in which your fathers lived; they will live in it – they and their children and their grandchildren forever. David my servant will be prince over them forever. 37:26 I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be a perpetual covenant with them. 1 I will establish them, 2 increase their numbers, and place my sanctuary among them forever. 37:27 My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people. 37:28 Then, when my sanctuary is among them forever, the nations will know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel.’” 3
Isaiah 60:21
Context60:21 All of your people will be godly; 4
they will possess the land permanently.
I will plant them like a shoot;
they will be the product of my labor,
through whom I reveal my splendor. 5
Amos 9:15
Context9:15 I will plant them on their land
and they will never again be uprooted from the 6 land I have given them,”
says the Lord your God.
[37:26] 1 sn See Isa 24:5; 55:3; 61:8; Jer 32:40; 50:5; Ezek 16:60, for other references to perpetual covenants.
[37:28] 3 sn The sanctuary of Israel becomes the main focus of Ezek 40-48.
[60:21] 4 tn Or “righteous” (NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NAB “just.”
[60:21] 5 tn Heb “a shoot of his planting, the work of my hands, to reveal splendor.”
[9:15] 6 tn Heb “their.” The pronoun was replaced by the English definite article in the translation for stylistic reasons.