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Ezekiel 35:9

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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ASV

I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall not be inhabited; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

KJV

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

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
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 →

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Malachi 1:4Though Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, and a people with whom the LORD is indignant forever.Ezekiel 25:13therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.Obadiah 1:10Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.Ezekiel 6:7The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.Malachi 1:3–4but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”Ezekiel 35:4I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.Ezekiel 37:6I will attach tendons to you and make flesh grow upon you and cover you with skin. I will put breath within you so that you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”Jeremiah 51:62and say, ‘O LORD, You have promised to cut off this place so that no one will remain—neither man nor beast. Indeed, it will be desolate forever.’Jeremiah 49:13For by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”Ezekiel 36:11I will fill you with people and animals, and they will multiply and be fruitful. I will make you as inhabited as you once were, and I will make you prosper more than before. Then you will know that I am the LORD.Ezekiel 7:4I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’Jeremiah 49:17–18“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.Zephaniah 2:9Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”Ezekiel 7:9I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who strikes the blow.Ezekiel 35:7I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.Ezekiel 35:12Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard every contemptuous word you uttered against the mountains of Israel when you said, ‘They are desolate; they are given to us to devour!’Ezekiel 25:5I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels, and Ammon a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’Jeremiah 25:12But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.

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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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