And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.
And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden - "they," i:e., the pagan, who once made Israel's desolation a ground of reproach against the name of Yahweh himself (Ezekiel 36:20-21); but now he so vindicates its sanctity (Ezekiel 36:22-23) that these same pagan are constrained to acknowledge Israel's more than renewed blessedness to be God's own work, and a ground for glorifying His name (Ezekiel 36:36).
Eden - as Tyre (the type of the world-powers in general; also, Assyria, a cedar "in the garden of God ... Eden," Ezekiel 31:8-9), in respect to her original advantages, had been compared to "Eden, the garden of God" (Ezekiel 28:13), from which she had fallen irrecoverably; so Israel;, once desolate, is to be as "the garden of Eden" (Isaiah 51:3); and is to be so unchangeably.