Ezekiel 36:31 (YLT)

Passage

And ye have remembered your ways that <FI>are<Fi> evil, And your doings that <FI>are<Fi> not good, And have been loathsome in your own faces, For your iniquities, and for your abominations.

Nearby Context

Ezekiel 36:29 And I have saved you from all your uncleannesses, And I have called unto the corn, and multiplied it, And I have put no famine upon you.

Ezekiel 36:30 And I have multiplied the fruit of the tree, And the increase of the field, So that ye receive not any more a reproach of famine among nations.

Ezekiel 36:31 And ye have remembered your ways that <FI>are<Fi> evil, And your doings that <FI>are<Fi> not good, And have been loathsome in your own faces, For your iniquities, and for your abominations.

Ezekiel 36:32 Not for your sake am I working, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Be it known to you, Be ashamed and confounded, because of your ways, O house of Israel.

Ezekiel 36:33 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: In the day of My cleansing you from all your iniquities, I have caused the cities to be inhabited, And the wastes have been built,

Study Lenses

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

The nearby context moves from verse 30's "And I have multiplied the fruit of..." into verse 32's "Not for your sake am I working...", so "iniquities" and "remembered" 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 "remembered" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.