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Ezekiel 12:20

The inhabited cities will be laid waste, and the land will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

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ASV

And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

KJV

And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְהֶעָרִ֤יםve.he.'a.Rimand the citiesH5892 →
הַנּֽוֹשָׁבוֹת֙ha.no.sha.Vot<the> inhabitedH3427 →
תֶּחֱרַ֔בְנָהte.che.Rav.nahthey will be wasteH2717 →
וְהָאָ֖רֶץve.ha.'A.retzand the landH776 →
שְׁמָמָ֣הshe.ma.Maha desolationH8077 →
תִֽהְיֶ֑הtih.Yehit will becomeH1961 →
וִֽידַעְתֶּ֖םvi.da'.Temand you will knowH3045 →
כִּֽי־ki-thatH3588 →
אֲנִ֥י'a.NiIH589 →
יְהוָֽה׃ פYah.weh[am] YahwehH3068 →

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Isaiah 7:23–24And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.Jeremiah 4:7A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.Isaiah 24:1Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—Jeremiah 25:9behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.Isaiah 3:26And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.Ezekiel 12:15And they will know that I am the LORD, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them throughout the countries.Jeremiah 12:10–12Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.Jeremiah 19:11and you are to proclaim to them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter this nation and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.Jeremiah 24:8–10But like the bad figs, so bad they cannot be eaten,’ says the LORD, ‘so will I deal with Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem—those remaining in this land and those living in the land of Egypt.Ezekiel 15:8Thus I will make the land desolate, because they have acted unfaithfully,’ declares the Lord GOD.”Isaiah 64:10–11Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.Isaiah 24:12The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.Jeremiah 4:23–29I looked at the earth, and it was formless and void; I looked to the heavens, and they had no light.Jeremiah 16:9For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.Isaiah 24:3The earth will be utterly laid waste and thoroughly plundered. For the LORD has spoken this word.Lamentations 5:18because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.Daniel 9:17So now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of Your servant. For Your sake, O Lord, cause Your face to shine upon Your desolate sanctuary.Ezekiel 15:6Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give up the people of Jerusalem.

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The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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