Ezekiel 35:9 “I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be in…”

Ezekiel 35:9

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall not be inhabited; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

Geneva Bible 1599

I wil make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not returne, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lord.

Darby Translation

I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not be inhabited: and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation

Desolations age-during I make thee, And thy cities do not return, And ye have known that I [am] Jehovah.

Bible in Basic English

I will make you waste for ever, and your towns will be unpeopled: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

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Cross references

“perpetual”

Ezekiel 25:13 Ezekiel 35:4 Zephaniah 2:9 Jeremiah 49:17 Jeremiah 49:18 Malachi 1:3

Ezekiel 25:13 · BSB

therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.

Ezekiel 35:4 · BSB

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

Zephaniah 2:9 · BSB

Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah— a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My pe…

Jeremiah 49:17 · BSB

“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.

Jeremiah 49:18 · BSB

As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors,” says the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.

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. ”

“and ye”

Ezekiel 6:7 Ezekiel 7:4 Ezekiel 7:9 Ezekiel 36:11

Ezekiel 6:7 · BSB

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

Ezekiel 7:4 · BSB

I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’

Ezekiel 7:9 · BSB

I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who strikes the blow.

Ezekiel 36:11 · BSB

I will fill you with people and animals, and they will multiply and be fruitful. I will make you as inhabited as you once were, and I will make you prosper more than before. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

Also

Jeremiah 49:13

Jeremiah 49:13 · BSB

For by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”

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

In context

8I will fill its mountains with the slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines.

10Because you have said, ‘These two nations and countries will be ours, and we will possess them,’ even though the LORD was there,

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