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Contemporary English Version

Ezekiel 15:8

I will make their country an empty wasteland, because they have not been loyal to me. I, the Lord God, have spoken.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - War;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Vine;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Vine, Vineyard;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will make the land desolate because they have acted unfaithfully.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.
Hebrew Names Version
I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, says the Lord GOD.
King James Version
And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord God .
English Standard Version
And I will make the land desolate, because they have acted faithlessly, declares the Lord God ."
New American Standard Bible
'So I will make the land desolate, because they have acted unfaithfully,'" declares the Lord GOD.
New Century Version
So I will make the land empty, because the people have not been loyal, says the Lord God ."
Amplified Bible
'I will make the land desolate (ruined, deserted), because they have acted unfaithfully [through their idolatry],' says the Lord GOD."
World English Bible
I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, says the Lord Yahweh.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And when I make the lande waste, because they haue greatly offended, saith the Lord God.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Thus I will make the land desolate, because they have acted unfaithfully,'" declares the Lord GOD.
Legacy Standard Bible
Thus I will give over the land to desolation because they have acted unfaithfully,'" declares Lord Yahweh.
Berean Standard Bible
Thus I will make the land desolate, because they have acted unfaithfully, declares the Lord GOD.'"
Complete Jewish Bible
I will make the land desolate because they have dealt so treacherously,' says Adonai Elohim ."
Darby Translation
And I will make the land a desolation, because they have wrought unfaithfulness, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Easy-to-Read Version
I will destroy that country because the people left me to worship false gods ." This is what the Lord God said.
George Lamsa Translation
And I will make the land desolate and a horror because they have committed iniquity, says the LORD God.
Good News Translation
They have been unfaithful to me, and so I will make the country a wilderness." The Sovereign Lord has spoken.
Lexham English Bible
And I will make the land a desolation because they acted very unfaithfully!" declares the Lord Yahweh.
Literal Translation
And I will give the land to be desolate because they have done treachery, declares the Lord Jehovah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and make the londe waist: because they haue so sore offended, saieth the LORDE God.
American Standard Version
And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
And I will make the land a waste because they have done evil, says the Lord.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And I will make the land desolate, because they have acted treacherously, saith the Lord GOD.'
King James Version (1611)
And I will make the land desolate, because they haue committed a trespasse, saith the Lord God.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And when I make the lande waste, because they haue so sore offended, saith the Lorde God.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I will give up the land to ruin, because they have utterly transgressed, saith the Lord.
English Revised Version
And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and schal yyue the lond with out weie and desolat, for thei weren trespassours, seith the Lord God.
Update Bible Version
And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, says the Lord Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.
New English Translation
I will make the land desolate because they have acted unfaithfully, declares the sovereign Lord ."
New King James Version
Thus I will make the land desolate, because they have persisted in unfaithfulness,' says the Lord GOD."
New Living Translation
And I will make the land desolate because my people have been unfaithful to me. I, the Sovereign Lord , have spoken!"
New Life Bible
I will lay waste the land, because they have not been faithful,'" says the Lord God.
New Revised Standard
And I will make the land desolate, because they have acted faithlessly, says the Lord God .
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I will therefore give up the land as a desolation, - because they have committed treachery, Declareth My Lord., Yahweh.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I shall have made their land a wilderness, and desolate, because they have been transgressors, saith the Lord God.
Revised Standard Version
And I will make the land desolate, because they have acted faithlessly, says the Lord GOD."
Young's Literal Translation
And I have made the land a desolation, Because they have committed a trespass, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'

Contextual Overview

1 Some time later, the Lord said: 2 Ezekiel, son of man, what happens to the wood of a grapevine after the grapes have been picked? It isn't like other trees in the forest, 3 because the wood of a grapevine can't be used to make anything, not even a small peg to hang things on. 4 It can only be used as firewood. But after its ends are burnt and its middle is charred, it can't be used for anything. 5 The wood is useless before it is burned, and afterwards, it is completely worthless. 6 I, the Lord God, promise that just as the wood of a grapevine is burned as firewood, 7 I will punish the people of Jerusalem with fire. Some of them have escaped one destruction, but soon they will be completely burned. And when that happens, you, Ezekiel, will know that I am the Lord . 8 I will make their country an empty wasteland, because they have not been loyal to me. I, the Lord God, have spoken.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will: Ezekiel 6:14, Ezekiel 14:13-21, Ezekiel 33:29, Isaiah 6:11, Isaiah 24:3-12, Jeremiah 25:10, Jeremiah 25:11, Zephaniah 1:18

committed a trespass: Heb. trespassed a trespass, 2 Chronicles 36:14-16

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 12:20 - General Ezekiel 33:28 - I will lay

Cross-References

Genesis 15:2
But Abram answered, " Lord All-Powerful, you have given me everything I could ask for, except children. And when I die, Eliezer of Damascus will get all I own.
Genesis 15:4
The Lord replied, "No, he won't! You will have a son of your own, and everything you have will be his."
Genesis 15:9
Then the Lord told him, "Bring me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a dove, and a young pigeon."
Genesis 15:10
Abram obeyed the Lord . Then he cut the animals in half and laid the two halves of each animal opposite each other on the ground. But he did not cut the doves and pigeons in half.
Genesis 15:13
Then the Lord said: Abram, you will live to an old age and die in peace. But I solemnly promise that your descendants will live as foreigners in a land that doesn't belong to them. They will be forced into slavery and abused for four hundred years. But I will terribly punish the nation that enslaves them, and they will leave with many possessions.
Genesis 15:17
Sometime after sunset, when it was very dark, a smoking cooking pot and a flaming fire went between the two halves of each animal.
2 Kings 20:8
Hezekiah asked Isaiah, "Can you prove that the Lord will heal me, so that I can worship in his temple in three days?"
Psalms 86:17
Show that you approve of me! Then my hateful enemies will feel like fools, because you have helped and comforted me.
Isaiah 7:11
"Ask me for proof that my promise will come true. Ask for something to happen deep in the world of the dead or high in the heavens above."
Luke 1:18
Zechariah said to the angel, "How will I know this is going to happen? My wife and I are both very old."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I will make the land desolate,.... The land of Judea uncultivated, men and beast being cut off; see Ezekiel 14:15;

because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord God; acted a treacherous and perfidious part; apostatized from God, having committed idolatry, which was the cause of their ruin; and therefore it was not without a cause that the Lord did what he did, in it; see Ezekiel 14:23.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 15:8. They have committed a trespass — They have prevaricated; they are the worst of sinners, and shall have the heaviest of punishments. Can men suppose that it is possible to hide even their dark hearts from God?


 
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