Ezekiel 36:8-12

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. ¹¹ And I will multiply on you _g man and beast, and _h they shall multiply and be fruitful. And I will cause you to be inhabited as in _i your former times, and _j will do more good to you than ever before. _k Then you will know that I am the Lord. ¹² I will let people walk on you, even my people Israel. _l And they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no longer _m bereave them of children.

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.
   
7. Cross References
   Jeremiah 31:27
   Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast.
   Jeremiah 33:12
   Thus says the Lord of hosts: In this place that is waste, without man or beast, and in all of its cities, there shall again be habitations of shepherds resting their flocks.
   
8. Cross References
   Genesis 1:28
   And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.
   
9. Cross References
   Ezekiel 16:55
   As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, and you and your daughters shall return to your former state.
   
10. Cross References
    Job 42:12
    And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
    
11. Cross References
    Ezekiel 6:7
    And the slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
    
12. Cross References
    Obadiah 1:17
    But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape, and it shall be holy, and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
    
13. Cross References
    Ezekiel 5:17
    I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will rob you of your children. Pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I am the Lord ; I have spoken.