I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
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I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
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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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I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Cross-references (10)
Passages linked to Ezekiel 35:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Ezekiel 25:13 therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “I will stretch out my hand on Edom, and will cut off man and animal from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman. They will fall by the sword even to Dedan.
- Ezekiel 6:7 The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 35:4 I will lay your cities waste, and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
- Malachi 1:3-4 but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.” Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;” Yahweh of Armies says, “They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever.”
- Jeremiah 49:13 For I have sworn by myself,” says Yahweh, “that Bozrah will become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. All its cities will be perpetual wastes.”
- Jeremiah 49:17-18 “Edom will become an astonishment. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and will hiss at all its plagues. As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbor cities,” says Yahweh, “no man will dwell there, neither will any son of man live therein.
- Ezekiel 7:4 My eye will not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations will be among you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.’
- Ezekiel 7:9 My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways. Your abominations will be among you. Then you will know that I, Yahweh, strike.
- Ezekiel 36:11 I will multiply man and animal on you. They will increase and be fruitful. I will cause you to be inhabited as you were before, and you will do better than at your beginnings. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
- Zephaniah 2:9 Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain To wit, to their former estate.
To wit, to their former estate.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 35:9 I will make thee perpetual desolations, and…
Eze 35:9 I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.
Ver. 9. I will make thee perpetual desolations.] For thy perpetual hatred. {Eze 35:5}
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And thy cities.] See Eze 35:4.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Edom’s sin was perpetual hatred, and Edom’s punishment shall…
Edom’s sin was perpetual hatred, and Edom’s punishment shall be perpetual desolations. Edomites would never return into friendship with the Israelites, but still hate, and molest, and waste them; now for just recompence Edom’s cities shall be wasted, and never return to their former glory.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities…
I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return,.... To their former dignity and glory; should not be built and inhabited again, but lie waste for ever: this agrees with what is prophesied of Edom, Mal 1:4 and will be true of Rome or Babylon when destroyed; it will never rise more, but be like a millstone in the midst of the sea, Rev 18:21,
and ye shall know that I am the Lord; See Gill on Eze 35:4.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Return - To their former glory.
Return - To their former glory.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 9. Perpetual desolations] Thou shalt have perpetual desolation…
Verse 9. Perpetual desolations] Thou shalt have perpetual desolation for thy perpetual hatred.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Return - Or, “be inhabited.”
Return - Or, “be inhabited.”
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Inhabited for a considerable time, as [in] chap. xxvi.…
Inhabited for a considerable time, as [in] chap. xxvi. 20.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain shall not return--to their former state (Eze 16:55); shall…
shall not return--to their former state (Eze 16:55); shall not be restored. The Hebrew text (Chetib) reads, "shall not be inhabited" (compare Eze 26:20; Mal 1:3-4).
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 9. cities shall not return] Probably, shall not be…
9. cities shall not return] Probably, shall not be inhabited (Heb. text teshabnah). The pointing “return” possibly reposes on Eze_16:55.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Thy cities shall not return, as in Eze_16:55 (Authorized…
Thy cities shall not return, as in Eze_16:55 (Authorized Version after the Keri) or, shall not be inhabited, as in Eze_26:20 Eze_29:11 Eze_36:33 (LXX and Revised Version, both of which follow the Chethib) Hengstenberg"s translation, "Thy cities shall not sit," but lie prostrate, is not extremely happy.
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