Ezekiel 35:9
What does Ezekiel 35:9 mean?
A plain-English look at Ezekiel 35:9 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall not be inhabited; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
KJV
King James Version · 1611I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall not be inhabited; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949I will make you waste for ever, and your towns will be unpeopled: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Desolations age-during I make thee, And thy cities do not return, And ye have known that I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752I will make thee everlasting desolations, and thy cities shall not be inhabited: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord God.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not be inhabited: and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah.
Context
v.8And I will fill its mountains with its slain: in thy hills and in thy valleys and in all thy watercourses shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
v.9This passage
v.10Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas Jehovah was there:
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Jeremiah 49:17
And Edom shall become an astonishment: every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
- Zephaniah 2:9
Therefore as I live, saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall make a prey of them, and the remnant of my nation shall inherit them.
- Jeremiah 49:13
For I have sworn by myself, saith Jehovah, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
- Ezekiel 7:9
And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will bring upon thee according to thy ways; and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I, Jehovah, do smite.
- Ezekiel 6:7
And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
- Ezekiel 35:4
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.
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