Ezekiel 35:4
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 35:4 in other translations
| BSB | I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD. |
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| WEB | I will lay your cities waste, and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD. |
| ASV | I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah. |
| YLT | Thy cities a waste I make, and thou art a desolation, And thou hast known that I am Jehovah. |
| DARBY | I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be a desolation: and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah. |
| BBE | I will make your towns unpeopled and you will be a waste; and you will be certain that I am the Lord. |
| Webster | I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD. |
What does Ezekiel 35:4 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 35:1-9
A prophecy against Edom. Verses 1-9 All who have God against them, have the word of God against them. Those that have a constant hatred to God and his people, as the carnal mind has, can only expect to be made desolate for ever.
Ezekiel 35:4 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Ezekiel 35:4
- Ezekiel 35:9
I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
- Malachi 1:3-4
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the Lord hath indignation for ever.
- Exodus 14:4
And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the Lord. And they did so.
- Ezekiel 35:12
And thou shalt know that I am the Lord, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
- Joel 3:19
Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
- Exodus 9:14
For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth.
- Ezekiel 6:6-7
In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished. And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
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Context
- Ezekiel 35:3
And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
- Ezekiel 35:4
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
- Ezekiel 35:5
Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
Ezekiel 35:4 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | A tus ciudades asolaré, y tú serás asolado; y sabrás que yo soy Jehová. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Je réduirai tes villes en déserts, et tu seras une désolation; et tu sauras que je suis l’ Éternel. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | und ich werde deine Städte zur Einöde machen, und du selbst wirst eine Wüste werden. Und du wirst wissen, daß ich Jehova bin. - |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Urbes tuas demoliar, et tu desertus eris: et scies quia ego Dominus. |