Ezekiel 35:4 “I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation.…”

Ezekiel 35:4

I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

World English Bible

I will lay your cities waste, and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

American Standard Version

I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.

Geneva Bible 1599

I wil lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt knowe that I am the Lord.

Darby Translation

I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be a desolation: and thou shalt know that I [am] Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation

Thy cities a waste I make, and thou art a desolation, And thou hast known that I [am] Jehovah.

Bible in Basic English

I will make your towns unpeopled and you will be a waste; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

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Cross references

“lay”

Ezekiel 35:9 Joel 3:19 Ezekiel 6:6 Malachi 1:3 Malachi 1:4

Ezekiel 35:9 · BSB

I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

Joel 3:19 · BSB

Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.

Ezekiel 6:6 · BSB

Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your w…

Malachi 1:3 · BSB

but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals. ”

Malachi 1:4 · BSB

Though Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, and a people with whom…

“and thou”

Ezekiel 35:12 Exodus 9:14 Exodus 14:4 Ezekiel 6:7

Ezekiel 35:12 · BSB

Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard every contemptuous word you uttered against the mountains of Israel when you said, ‘They are desolate; they are given to us to devour!’

Exodus 9:14 · BSB

Otherwise, I will send all My plagues against you and your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth.

Exodus 14:4 · BSB

And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart so that he will pursue them. But I will gain honor by means of Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.” So this is what the Israelites did.

Ezekiel 6:7 · BSB

The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.

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

In context

3and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir. I will stretch out My hand against you and make you a desolate waste.

5Because you harbored an ancient hatred and delivered the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their disaster at the final stage of their punishment,

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