Ezekiel 36:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

These verses contain much the same promise of future good which God engageth to do for Israel after their return out of Babylon. He will multiply men upon the mountains of Israel, he will increase them; now, lest any should reply there had been too many men on the mountains, even all the heathen, God addeth, they shall be all of them of the house of Israel, Jews, and they should settle and build the wasted cities, not Jerusalem only, but other cities also; even wasted houses shall be built, you shall have large stocks of cattle, that your condition shall be as in days of old. Will do better unto you; I will give spiritual blessings instead of temporal, and Messiah's kingdom shall hasten to you instead of that which was abolished: in whatsoever this better consisted, it is certain God performed his word.