Ezekiel 35:9

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

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BSBPD

“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 · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Desolations age-during I make thee, And thy cities do not return, And ye have known that I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Ezekiel 35:9 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Jeremiah 49:13For 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.”
  2. Jeremiah 49:17“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
  3. Ezekiel 6:7The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.
  4. Ezekiel 6:14I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”
  5. Ezekiel 7:4I 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.’
  6. Ezekiel 7:9I 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.
  7. Ezekiel 25:13therefore 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.
  8. Ezekiel 35:4I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
  9. Ezekiel 36:11I 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.
  10. Zephaniah 2:9Therefore, 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 people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”
  11. Malachi 1:3but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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