Ezekiel 36:28

Covenant and promises Israel and the nations

²⁶ A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

²⁷ And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

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.

²⁹ I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.

³⁰ And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.

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 shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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Jeremiah 32:38
And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
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Ezekiel 37:27
My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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Ezekiel 11:20
That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
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Ezekiel 37:23
Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
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Matthew 22:32
I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
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Revelation 21:7
He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
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Jeremiah 30:22–23
And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
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