Ezekiel 12:20 “The inhabited cities will be laid waste, and the land will become deso…”

Ezekiel 12:20

The inhabited cities will be laid waste, and the land will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

World English Bible

The cities that are inhabited will be laid waste, and the land will be a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”’”

American Standard Version

And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

Geneva Bible 1599

And the cities that are inhabited, shall be left voyde, and the land shall be desolate, and yee shall knowe that I am the Lord.

Darby Translation

And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation

And the cities that are inhabited are laid waste, and the land is a desolation, and ye have known that I [am] Jehovah.'

Bible in Basic English

And the peopled towns will be made waste, and the land will become a wonder; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

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Cross references

“And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.”

Jeremiah 4:7 Isaiah 3:26 Jeremiah 25:9 Ezekiel 15:6 Ezekiel 15:8 Isaiah 24:3

Jeremiah 4:7 · BSB

A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.

Isaiah 3:26 · BSB

And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.

Jeremiah 25:9 · BSB

behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surro…

Ezekiel 15:6 · BSB

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give up the people of Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 15:8 · BSB

Thus I will make the land desolate, because they have acted unfaithfully,’ declares the Lord GOD.”

Isaiah 24:3 · BSB

The earth will be utterly laid waste and thoroughly plundered. For the LORD has spoken this word.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

19Then tell the people of the land that this is what the Lord GOD says about those living in Jerusalem and in the land of Israel: ‘They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in dread, for their land will be stripped of everything in it because of the violence of all who dwell in it.

21Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

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