Ezekiel 35 · Verse 9

Ezekiel 35:9

I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 35:9, King James Version

Ezekiel 35:9 in other translations

BSBI will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
WEBI will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
ASVI will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall not be inhabited; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
YLTDesolations age-during I make thee, And thy cities do not return, And ye have known that I am Jehovah.
DARBYI will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not be inhabited: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
BBEI will make you waste for ever, and your towns will be unpeopled: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
WebsterI will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

What does Ezekiel 35:9 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
9. shall not return--to their former state (Eze 16:55); shall not be restored. The Hebrew text (Chetib) reads, "shall not be inhabited" (compare Eze 26:20; Mal 1:3, 4).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 9 Perpetual desolations - Thou shalt have perpetual desolation for thy perpetual hatred.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

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.

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Ezekiel 35:9 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

שִֽׁמְמ֤וֹתshi.Motdesolations ofH8077
עוֹלָם֙o.LamperpetuityH5769
אֶתֶּנְךָ֔'e.ten.KhaI will make youH5414
וְעָרֶ֖יךָve.'a.Rei.khaand cities yourH5892
לֹ֣אlo'notH3808
תָשֹׁ֑בְנָהtei.shav.nahthey will returnH7725
וִֽידַעְתֶּ֖םvi.da'.Temand you will knowH3045
כִּֽי\־ki-thatH3588
אֲנִ֥י'a.NiIH589
יְהוָֽה\׃Yah.weh[am] YahwehH3068

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Ezekiel 35:9

  • Ezekiel 25:13

    Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.

  • Ezekiel 6:7

    And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, 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.

  • Ezekiel 35:4

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

  • Ezekiel 7:4

    And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

  • Jeremiah 49:17-18

    Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof. As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the Lord, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.

  • Ezekiel 36:11

    And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

  • Jeremiah 49:13

    For I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.

  • Ezekiel 7:9

    And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the Lord that smiteth.

  • Zephaniah 2:9

    Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I will make.After being subdued by Nebuchadnezzar, about five years after the destruction of Jerusalem, many of the Edomites, during the Babylonian captivity, being driven from their ancient habitation by the Nabatheans, seized upon the south-western part of Judea; but afterwards they were conquered by Hyrcanus, and reduced to the necessity of embracing the Jewish religion; and at last became either incorporated with that nation, or swallowed up and lost among the Nabathean Arabs, so that the very name was abolished and disused about the end of the first century after Christ. Their country is now barren; and their cities, even Bozra and Petra, totally demolished and in ruins.
perpetual.
4; 25:13; Jer 49:17,18; Zep 2:9; Mal 1:3,4
and ye.
6:7; 7:4,9; 36:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Ezekiel 35:8

    And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.

  • Ezekiel 35:9

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

  • Ezekiel 35:10

    Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the Lord was there:

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Ezekiel 35:9 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Yo te pondré en asolamientos perpetuos, y tus ciudades nunca más se restaurarán; y sabréis que yo soy Jehová.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Je te réduirai en désolations perpétuelles, et tes villes ne seront plus habitées; et vous saurez que je suis l’ Éternel.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Zu ewigen Wüsteneien werde ich dich machen, und deine Städte sollen nicht mehr bewohnt werden. Und ihr werdet wissen, daß ich Jehova bin. -
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
In solitudines sempiternas tradam te, et civitates tuæ non habitabuntur: et scietis quia ego Dominus Deus.