Ezekiel 36:31 (KJV)

Passage

Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.

Nearby Context

Ezekiel 36:29 I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.

Ezekiel 36:30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.

Ezekiel 36:31 Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.

Ezekiel 36:32 Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.

Ezekiel 36:33 Thus saith 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 wastes shall be builded.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "iniquities", "shall", "remember", "evil", "ways", "doings", "good", and "lothe". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "iniquities" and "shall", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 30's "And I will multiply the fruit of..." into verse 32's "Not for your sakes do I this...", so "iniquities" 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 "iniquities" and "shall" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.