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Ezekiel 30:7

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They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will lie among ruined cities.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

KJV

And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

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This verse in Ezekiel 30

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate,.... Or among them, shall be ranked with them, and be as desolate as they are; as Judea and other countries, ravaged by the same enemy: and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted; undergo the same fate as they have done, as Jerusalem and others. The cities of Egypt were very numerous; Diodorus Siculus (n) says, that in ancient times Egypt had cities and villages of note, more than 18,0

This site's exposition

desolate among desolate lands

on Ezekiel 30:7-9

Egypt joins a roster already familiar to Ezekiel's hearers, the same fate announced for Tyre and her neighbors. The recognition formula lands again, they shall know that I am the Lord. Messengers carry the alarm, and the careless Ethiopians learn that no distance keeps a nation safe from the news.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(Chapter 30, Verses 1 and following) And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, prophesy and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Howl ye, woe, woe to the day: For the day is near, yea the day of the Lord is near, a day of cloud, the time of the nations shall be. And the sword shall come upon Egypt: and there shall be dread in Ethiopia, when the wounded shall fall in Egypt, and the multitude thereof shall be taken away, and the foundations thereof shall be destroyed.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

A repetition of a former prophecy against Egypt, just before the desolation of it begun by their own bad conduct, which gradually weakened them and prepared the way for the king of Babylon,

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Shall be desolate - All these countries shall be desolated, and the places named shall be chief in these desolations.

The words behind it

9 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְנָשַׁ֕מּוּand they will be desolate

    venashamuH8074 →86 times

  • בְּת֖וֹךְin midst of

    betokhH8432 →418 times

  • אֲרָצ֣וֹתlands

    ʾaratzotH776 →2504 times

  • נְשַׁמּ֑וֹתmade desolate

    neshamotH8074 →86 times

  • וְעָרָ֕יוand cities its

    vearavH5892 →1090 times

  • בְּתוֹךְ־in midst of

    betokh-H8432 →418 times

  • עָרִ֥יםcities

    ʾarimH5892 →1090 times

  • נַחֲרָב֖וֹתmade waste

    nacharavotH2717 →40 times

  • תִּֽהְיֶֽינָה׃they will be

    tihyeinahH1961 →3559 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Ezekiel 29:12I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolate lands, and her cities will lie desolate for forty years among the ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the countries.5 worksJeremiah 25:18–26to make them a ruin, an object of horror and contempt and cursing, as they are to this day—Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials;3 worksJeremiah 46:1–28This is the word of the LORD about the nations—the word that came to Jeremiah the prophet2 worksEzekiel 32:18–32“Son of man, wail for the multitudes of Egypt, and consign her and the daughters of the mighty nations to the depths of the earth with those who descend to the Pit:2 works

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 29:12

    I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolate lands, and her cities will lie desolate for forty years among the ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 46:19

      Pack your bags for exile, O daughter dwelling in Egypt! For Memphis will be laid waste, destroyed and uninhabited.

    • Ezekiel 30:23

      I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.

    • Jeremiah 25:15–19

      This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from My hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink…

    • Ezekiel 30:26

      I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”

    • Jeremiah 27:6–11

      So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I have even made the beasts of the field subject to him.

Where this verse is studied

About Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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