Parallel Verses
NET Bible
The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes 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.
King James 2000
And the desolate land shall be tilled, instead of lying desolate in the sight of all that passed 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.
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 "'This is what the sovereign Lord says: In the day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will populate the cities and the ruins will be rebuilt. 34 The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by. 35 They will say, "This desolate land has become like the garden of Eden; the ruined, desolate, and destroyed cities are now fortified and inhabited."
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:23-28
The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his intense anger.
2 Chronicles 36:21
This took place to fulfill the Lord's message delivered through Jeremiah. The land experienced its sabbatical years; it remained desolate for seventy years, as prophesied.
Jeremiah 25:9-11
So I, the Lord, affirm that I will send for all the peoples of the north and my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and all the nations that surround it. I will utterly destroy this land, its inhabitants, and all the nations that surround it and make them everlasting ruins. I will make them objects of horror and hissing scorn.
Ezekiel 6:14
I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land a desolate waste from the wilderness to Riblah, in all the places where they live. Then they will know that I am the Lord!"