Ezekiel 36:9 (DRB)

Passage

For I, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be ploughed and sown.

Nearby Context

Ezekiel 36:7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: I have lifted up my hand, that the Gentiles who are round about you, shall themselves bear their shame.

Ezekiel 36:8 But as for you, O mountains of Israel, shoot ye forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel: for they are at hand to come.

Ezekiel 36:9 For I, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be ploughed and sown.

Ezekiel 36:10 And I will multiply men upon you, and all the house of Israel: and the cities ball be inhabited, and the ruinous places shall be repaired.

Ezekiel 36:11 And I will make you abound with men and with beasts: and they shall be multiplied, and increased: and I will settle you as from the beginning, and will give you greater gifts, than you had from the beginning: and you shall know that I am the Lord.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "turn", "shall", "ploughed", and "sown". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "turn" and "shall", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 8's "But as for you O mountains of..." into verse 10's "And I will multiply men upon you...", so "turn" and "shall" 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 "turn" and "shall" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.