Ezekiel 36:34
Good News Translation
Everyone who used to walk by your fields saw how overgrown and wild they were, but I will let you farm them again.

New Revised Standard Version
The land that was desolate shall be tilled, instead of being the desolation that it was in the sight of all who passed by.

Contemporary English Version
Your land will be plowed again, and nobody will be able to see that it was once barren.

New American Bible
The desolate land will be tilled—once a wasteland in the eyes of every passerby.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the desolate land shall be tilled, which before was waste in the sight of all that passed by,

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And the desolate land shall be tilled, which before was waste in the sight of all that passed by,

Ezekiel 6:14 And I will stretch forth my hand upon them: and I will make the land desolate, and abandoned from the desert of Deblatha in all their dwelling places: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 29:23-28 Burning it with brimstone, and the heat of salt, so that it cannot be sown any more, nor any green thing grow therein, after the example of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord destroyed in his wrath and indignation: . . .

2 Chronicles 36:21 That the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, and the land might keep her sabbaths: for all the days of the desolation she kept a sabbath, till the seventy years were expired.

Jeremiah 25:9-11 Behold I will send, and take all the kindreds of the north, saith the Lord, and Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon my servant: and I will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all the nations that are round about it: and I will destroy them, and make them an astonishment and a hissing, and perpetual desolations. . . .

Context
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33Thus saith the Lord God: In the day that I shall cleanse you from all your iniquities, and shall cause the cities to be inhabited, and shall repair the ruinous places, 34And the desolate land shall be tilled, which before was waste in the sight of all that passed by,35They shall say: This land that was untilled is become as a garden of pleasure: and the cities that were abandoned, and desolate, and destroyed, are peopled and fenced.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 36:9
For I, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be ploughed and sown.

Ezekiel 36:33
Thus saith the Lord God: In the day that I shall cleanse you from all your iniquities, and shall cause the cities to be inhabited, and shall repair the ruinous places,

Ezekiel 36:35
They shall say: This land that was untilled is become as a garden of pleasure: and the cities that were abandoned, and desolate, and destroyed, are peopled and fenced.

Ezekiel 36:33
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