Ezekiel 35:9

In 11 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.

KJV

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

WEB

I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

ASV

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

LSV

I make you continuous desolations, || And your cities do not return, || And you have known that I [am] YHWH.

YLT

Desolations age-during I make thee, And thy cities do not return, And ye have known that I [am] Jehovah.

DBY

I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not be inhabited: and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah.

DRC

I will make thee everlasting desolations, and thy cities shall not be inhabited: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord God.

GNV

I wil make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not returne, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lord.

JPS

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

LXXE

I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall not be inhabited any more: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

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WLC

שִֽׁמְמ֤וֹת עוֹלָם֙ אֶתֶּנְךָ֔ וְעָרֶ֖יךָ לֹ֣א תישבנה וִֽידַעְתֶּ֖ם כִּֽי־אֲנִ֥י יְהוָֽה׃Read aloud as (qere): תָשֹׁ֑בְנָה

LXX-Br

Ἐρημίαν αἰώνιον θήσομαί σε, καὶ αἱ πόλεις σου οὐ μὴ κατοικηθῶσιν ἔτι, καὶ γνώσῃ ὅτι ἐγώ εἰμι Κύριος.

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• 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.
• Malachi 1:3–4but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.” Though Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the LORD of…
• Ezekiel 6:7The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.
• Ezekiel 35:4I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
• 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.”
• 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…
• 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 7:9I 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 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. As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors,” says the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no…

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