Parallel Verses
King James 2000
And the desolate land shall be tilled, instead of lying desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
New American Standard Bible
The desolate land will be cultivated instead of being a desolation in the sight of everyone who passes by.
King James Version
And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
Holman Bible
The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.
International Standard Version
The desolate fields will be cultivated, replacing the former wasteland that everyone who passed by in times past had noticed.
A Conservative Version
And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.
American Standard Version
And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all that passed by.
Amplified
The desolate land will be cultivated instead of being a desolation in the sight of everyone who passes by.
Bible in Basic English
And the land which was waste will be farmed, in place of being a waste in the eyes of everyone who went by.
Darby Translation
And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all that passed by.
Julia Smith Translation
And the desolate land shall be worked instead of its being a desolation before the eyes of all passing by.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the land that was desolate will be cultivated in {the very place that} it was desolate before [the] eyes of all of [the persons] crossing over.
Modern King James verseion
And the waste land shall be tilled, instead of being a ruin before all passing by.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The desolate land shall be builded again, which afore time lay waste in the sight of all them that went by.
NET Bible
The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.
New Heart English Bible
The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.
The Emphasized Bible
And the land that was made desolate shall be tilled, - Whereas it was a desolation, before the eyes of every passer-by;
Webster
And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
World English Bible
The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.
Youngs Literal Translation
And the desolate land is tilled, Instead of which it was a desolation before the eyes of every passer by,
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 36:34
Verse Info
Context Readings
I Will Put My Spirit Within You
33 Thus says the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the ruins shall be rebuilt. 34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, instead of lying desolate in the sight of all that passed by. 35 And they shall say, This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities have become fortified, and are inhabited.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:23-28
And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor does it bear, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
2 Chronicles 36:21
To fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths: for as long as it lay desolate it kept sabbath, to fulfill threescore and ten years.
Jeremiah 25:9-11
Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Ezekiel 6:14
So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblah, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.