Along the riverbanks are many trees that bear fruit year-round, giving nourishment and healing.​—Ezekiel 47:1-12.

The restored people would be blessed with outstanding spiritual men​—men as righteous and firm as the trees along those visionary riverbanks, men who would take the lead in rebuilding a ruined land. Isaiah too had written of “big trees of righteousness” who would “rebuild the long-standing devastated places.”​—Isaiah 61:3, 4.

In time, under the guidance of these “big trees of righteousness”​—such as the scribe Ezra, the prophets Haggai and Zechariah, and the High Priest Joshua—​the long-devastated places were rebuilt.