Ezekiel 36:8-10

Prophecy to the Mountains of Israel

⁸ "But you, O mountains of Israel, _a shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to my people Israel, for _b they will soon come home. ⁹ For _c behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and _d you shall be tilled and sown. ¹⁰ And _e I will multiply people on you, the whole house of Israel, all of it. _f The cities shall be inhabited and the waste places rebuilt.

1. Cross References
   Ezekiel 17:23
   On the mountain height of Israel will I plant it, that it may bear branches and produce fruit and become a noble cedar. And under it will dwell every kind of bird; in the shade of its branches birds of every sort will nest.
   
2. Cross References
   Ezekiel 12:23
   Tell them therefore, 'Thus says the Lord God : I will put an end to this proverb, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel.' But say to them, The days are near, and the fulfillment of every vision.
   Isaiah 56:1
   Thus says the Lord : "Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed.
   
3. Cross References
   Ezekiel 5:8
   Therefore thus says the Lord God : Behold, I, even I, am against you. And I will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.
   
4. Cross References
   Ezekiel 36:34
   And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, instead of being the desolation that it was in the sight of all who passed by.
   
5. Cross References
   Ezekiel 36:37
   Thus says the Lord God : This also I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: to increase their people like a flock.
   Ezekiel 37:26
   I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore.
   Jeremiah 30:19
   Out of them shall come songs of thanksgiving, and the voices of those who celebrate. I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will make them honored, and they shall not be small.
   
6. Cross References
   Ezekiel 36:33
   Thus says the Lord God : On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be rebuilt.
   Ezekiel 36:35
   And they will say, 'This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden, and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.