Eze 36 | TSK | STEP | The land of Israel is comforted, both by destruction of the heathen, who spitefully used it, and by the blessings of God promised unto it. Israel was rejected for their sin, and shall be restored without their desert. The blessings of Christ's kingdom. the mountains. hear.

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.

at hand.

12:25; Php 4:5; Heb 10:37; Jas 5:8,9

Ps 46:11; 99:8; Ho 2:21-23; Joe 3:18; Hag 2:19; Zec 8:12

Mal 3:10,11; Ro 8:31

I will.

37; Isa 27:6; 41:17-23; Jer 30:19; 31:27,28; 33:12; Zec 8:3-6

the wastes.

33; Isa 51:3; 52:9; 58:12; 61:4; Jer 31:10-14; Am 9:14

I will multiply.

Jer 31:27; 33:12

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.

Jer 30:18; 31:38-40; Ob 1:19-21; Mic 7:14

will do.

35; Isa 30:26; 54:7-10; Jer 23:5-8; Joe 3:18-21; Am 9:15; Hag 2:6-9

Zec 8:11-15; Heb 8:8-13; 11:40

and ye.

35:9; 37:6,13; Isa 52:4-6; Ho 2:20; 1Jo 5:20

I will cause.The prophet is still personifying the mountains, valleys, and wastes of Judea.

they shall.

Jer 32:15,44; Ob 1:17-21

no more.

13; Nu 13:32; Jer 15:7

no more.

37:25-28; Isa 60:21; Am 9:15

bereave. or, cause to fail.

men.

6; 34:29; Isa 54:4; 60:14; Mic 7:8-10; Zep 3:19,20

thou bear.

Ps 89:50; Zep 2:8

they defiled.

Le 18:24-28; Nu 35:33,34; Ps 106:37,38; Isa 24:5; Jer 2:7; 3:1,2,9

Jer 16:18; Mic 2:10

as the.

Le 15:19-33; Isa 64:6

I poured.

7:8; 14:19; 21:31; 2Ch 34:21,26; Isa 42:25; Jer 7:20; 44:6; La 2:4

La 4:11; Na 1:6; Re 14:10; 16:1-21

for the.

16:36-38; 23:37

I scattered.

5:12; 22:15; Le 26:38; De 28:64; Am 9:9

according to their way.

7:3,8; 18:30; 22:31; 39:24; Ro 2:6; Re 20:12-15

they profaned.The Jews, when thus scattered, appeared to them an abject and wretched company of people. They were recognized as the worshippers of Jehovah wherever they went; but they were looked upon as a viler and more worthless race than any of the idolaters among whom they were driven. Many would ascribe their wickedness to the tendency of their religion, which they abhorred, and not to their having acted inconsistently with it; and regard their miseries, not as the punishment of their sins, but as proofs of God's inability to protect them. This profanation of his holy name, Jehovah was determined to wipe away, by shewing mercy unto them.

Isa 52:5; Ro 2:24

These.

Ex 32:11-13; Nu 14:15,16; Jos 7:9; 2Ki 18:30,35; 19:10-12

Jer 33:24; Da 3:15

20:9,14,22; De 32:26,27; Ps 74:18; Isa 37:35; 48:9

32; De 7:7,8; 9:5-7; Ps 106:8; 115:1,2

sanctify.

20:41; 38:22,23; Nu 20:12,13; Ps 46:10; Isa 5:16; 1Pe 3:15

and the heathen.

39:28; Ex 15:4-16; Ps 102:13-16; 126:1-3; Da 2:47; 3:28,29; 4:2,3

Da 4:34-37; 6:26,27

when I shall.