I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsI will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.
I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Thy cities a waste I make, and thou art a desolation, And thou hast known that I am Jehovah.
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be a desolation: and thou shalt know that I [am] Jehovah.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentEzekiel — The exile prophet — priest taken to Babylon in 597 BC, writing to a community still convinced the exile is temporary. Wheels within wheels, the glory departing, dry bones coming to life, and the city whose new name is YHWH Shammah — ‘the LORD is there.’
- Author
- Ezekiel, son of Buzi the priest (1:3)
- Date
- Dated oracles 593 BC (1:1, fifth year of Jehoiachin's exile) to 571 BC (29:17)