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After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land [that is] brought back from the sword, [and is] gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
Ezekiel 38:8 — KJV
Visited. Heb. paqad, which may here be translated “to muster,” as in Isa. 13:4 (see RSV). In the form here found, paqad may also mean “to summon.”
Latter years. Compare Gen. 49:1; Num. 24:14; Dan. 10:14; Micah 4:1; see on Isa. 2:2. How long a period of time is here comprehended is not known. Many years of captivity still lay ahead, and a considerable period would be involved in the reestablishment of the Jewish state, to bring it into the condition here described.
Many people. Better, “many peoples,” or “many nations.”
Always. Heb. tamid, “continually” (see on Dan. 8:11). The mountains of Israel had not perpetually been waste, but during the Captivity had been so constantly. Even after the return from bondage the rehabilitation would be a gradual process, and the full restoration would not come until after the destruction of the enemies of the new state.
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