The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.
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The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.
And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
For you will plow the ruined land until it is no longer a ruin before the eyes of all who pass by.
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The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.
The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through.
The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through.
And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all that passed by.
And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all that passed by.
And the desolate land shalbe tilled, whereas it lay waste in the sight of all that passed by.
And the desolate land shall be tilled, which before was waste in the sight of all that passed by,
And the desolate land is tilled, Instead of which it was a desolation before the eyes of every passer by,
And the desolate land is tilled, || Instead of which it was a desolation before the eyes of everyone passing by,
For you will plow the ruined land until it is no longer a ruin before the eyes of all who pass by.
For you will plow the ruined land until it is no longer a ruin before the eyes of all who pass by.
And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all that passed by.
The land that was desolate will be tilled instead of being a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.
And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
The land that was deserted will be cultivated again instead of looking abandoned to everyone passing by.
And the land which was waste will be farmed, in place of being a waste in the eyes of everyone who went by.
And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all that passed by.
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שְׁמָמָ֔ה desolation H8077 occurs in 54 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 21 words from the Hebrew and 20 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 10 Hebrew tokens and 17 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Topical passages linked to Ezekiel 36:34 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
וְהָאָ֥רֶץ הַנְּשַׁמָּ֖ה תֵּֽעָבֵ֑ד תַּ֚חַת אֲשֶׁ֣ר הָיְתָ֣ה שְׁמָמָ֔ה לְעֵינֵ֖י כָּל עוֹבֵֽר
The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ὁ γῆ ὁ ἀπο ἀναἵζω ἐργάζομαι ἀντί ὅς ὅτι ἀπο ἀναἵζω γίγνομαι κατά ὀφθαλμός πᾶς παραὁδεύω
and the desolate land shall be cultivated, whereas it was desolate in the eyes of every one that passed by.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וְאַרְעָא דַהֲוָת צַדְיָא תִּתְפְלַח חֲלַף דַהֲוַת צָדוּ לְעֵינַי כָּל דְעָדֵי:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Ezekiel, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 10 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shᵉmâmâh (“desolation”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Ezekiel 36:34 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.