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 in other translations
| BSB | 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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| WEB | I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD. |
| ASV | I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall not be inhabited; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah. |
| YLT | Desolations age-during I make thee, And thy cities do not return, And ye have known that I am Jehovah. |
| DARBY | I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not be inhabited: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah. |
| BBE | I will make you waste for ever, and your towns will be unpeopled: and you will be certain that I am the Lord. |
| Webster | I 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?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
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.
Ezekiel 35:9 in the original Hebrew
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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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perpetual.
4; 25:13; Jer 49:17,18; Zep 2:9; Mal 1:3,4
and ye.
6:7; 7:4,9; 36:11
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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:
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. |
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| 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. |