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Ezekiel 36:37

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36:37“This is what the sovereign Lord says: I will allow the house of Israel to ask me to do this for them:26 I will multiply their people like sheep.27

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Ezekiel 36:37: “Thus says the Lord GOD: This also I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: to increase their people like a flock.”

Footnotes

  1. 26 The Niphal verb may have a tolerative function here, “Again (for) this I will allow myself to be sought by the house of Israel to act for them.” Or it may be reflexive: “I will reveal myself to the house of Israel by doing this also.”
  2. 27 Heb “I will multiply them like sheep, human(s).”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“Thus says the Lord God: This also I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: to increase their people like a flock.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Once again I will yield to Israel’s plea and do this for them: I will make their people as numerous as sheep,

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“ ‘This is what the Lord God says: I will respond to the house of Israel and do this for them: I will multiply them in number like a flock.

NLTNew Living Translation

“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am ready to hear Israel’s prayers and to increase their numbers like a flock.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“Thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Again this time I will let myself be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do something for them; I will cause them to increase their population like a flock.

KJV 1900King James Version

Thus saith the Lord God; I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.