And I will multiply upon you man and beast, and they shall increase and bring forth fruit; and I will cause you to be inhabited as [in] your former times, yea, I will make it better than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah.
Ezekiel 36:9 For behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown.
Ezekiel 36:10 And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, the whole of it; and the cities shall be inhabited, and the waste places shall be builded.
Ezekiel 36:11 And I will multiply upon you man and beast, and they shall increase and bring forth fruit; and I will cause you to be inhabited as [in] your former times, yea, I will make it better than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah.
Ezekiel 36:12 And I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of children.
Ezekiel 36:13 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because they say unto you, Thou devourest men, and hast bereaved thy nation,
The verse centers on "multiply", "upon", "beast", "shall", "increase", "bring", "forth", and "fruit". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "multiply" and "upon", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.
The nearby context moves from verse 10's "And I will multiply men upon you..." into verse 12's "And I will cause men to walk...", so "multiply" and "upon" belong inside that flow. In Ezekiel context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.
A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "multiply" and "upon" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.