Ezekiel 36:28

Covenant and promises Israel and the nations

²⁶ I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

²⁷ And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.

Then you will live in the land that I gave your forefathers; you will be My people, and I will be your God.

²⁹ I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will summon the grain and make it plentiful, and I will not bring famine upon you.

³⁰ I will also make the fruit of the trees and the crops of the field plentiful, so that you will no longer bear reproach among the nations on account of famine.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Then you will live in the land that I gave your forefathers; you will be My people, and I will be your God.
KJV: And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
WEB: You will dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers. You will be my people, and I will be your God.
ASV: And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
DARBY: And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
BLB: And you⁺ will dwell in the land that I gave to your⁺ fathers and you⁺ will be unto Me a people, and I will be unto you⁺ God.

ÅB: Dere skal bo i det land jeg gav deres fedre, og dere skal være mitt folk, og jeg vil være deres Gud.
OTB: Da skal dere bo i det landet jeg ga til deres forfedre; dere skal være mitt folk, og jeg vil være deres Gud.
B1930: I skal bo i det land jeg gav eders fedre, og I skal være mitt folk, og jeg vil være eders Gud.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Jeremiah 31:33
“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
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Jeremiah 32:38
They will be My people, and I will be their God.
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Ezekiel 37:27
My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be My people.
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Ezekiel 11:20
so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.
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Ezekiel 37:23
They will no longer defile themselves with their idols or detestable images, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all their apostasies by which they sinned, and I will cleanse them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.
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Matthew 22:32
‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”
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Revelation 21:7
The one who overcomes will inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son.
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Jeremiah 30:22–23
“And you will be My people, and I will be your God.”
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