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The Darby Translation

Ezekiel 35:4

I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be a desolation: and thou shalt know that I [am] Jehovah.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Edomites;   The Topic Concordance - Desolation;   Enemies;   Hate;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Sela;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Edom;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Seir, Mount;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ezekiel;   Negeb;   Obadiah, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will turn your cities into ruins,and you will become a desolation.Then you will know that I am the Lord.
Hebrew Names Version
I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am the LORD.
King James Version
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord .
English Standard Version
I will lay your cities waste, and you shall become a desolation, and you shall know that I am the Lord .
New American Standard Bible
"I will turn your cities to ruins, And you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
New Century Version
I will destroy your cities, and you will become empty. Then you will know that I am the Lord .
Amplified Bible
"I will destroy your cities And you will become a wasteland. Then you shall know [without any doubt] that I am the LORD.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I wil lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, & thou shalt knowe that I am the Lord.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I will lay waste your cities And you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Legacy Standard Bible
I will lay waste your cities,And you will become a desolation.Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
Berean Standard Bible
I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Contemporary English Version
leaving your towns in ruins. Your land will be a desert, and then you will know that I am the Lord .
Complete Jewish Bible
I will make your cities ruins and make you an utter waste, and you will know that I am Adonai .
Easy-to-Read Version
I will destroy your cities, and you will become empty. Then you will know that I am the Lord .
George Lamsa Translation
And I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate, and you shall know that I am the LORD.
Good News Translation
I will leave your cities in ruins And your land desolate; Then you will know that I am the Lord .
Lexham English Bible
Your cities I will make ruins, and you will be a desolation, and then you will know that I am Yahweh,
Literal Translation
I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be a ruin. And they shall know that I am Jehovah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thy cities wil I breake downe, & thou shalt lye voyde: that thou mayest knowe, how that I am the LORDE.
American Standard Version
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
I will make your towns unpeopled and you will be a waste; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
King James Version (1611)
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thy cities wyll I laye waste, & thou shalt lye voyde, that thou mayst knowe howe that I am the Lorde,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I will cause desolation in thy cities, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
English Revised Version
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
World English Bible
I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y schal distrie thi citees, and thou schalt be forsakun; and thou schalt wite, that Y am the Lord.
Update Bible Version
I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD.
New English Translation
I will lay waste your cities; and you will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the Lord !
New King James Version
I shall lay your cities waste, And you shall be desolate. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.
New Living Translation
I will demolish your cities and make you desolate. Then you will know that I am the Lord .
New Life Bible
I will destroy your cities, and you will become a waste. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
New Revised Standard
I lay your towns in ruins; you shall become a desolation, and you shall know that I am the Lord .
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thy cities, will I lay waste, And thou - a desolation, shalt become, So shalt thou know that I, am Yahweh.
Douay-Rheims Bible
I will destroy thy cities, and thou shalt be desolate: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
Revised Standard Version
I will lay your cities waste, and you shall become a desolation; and you shall know that I am the LORD.
Young's Literal Translation
Thy cities a waste I make, and thou art a desolation, And thou hast known that I [am] Jehovah.

Contextual Overview

1 And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it, 3 and say unto it, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and I will make thee a desolation and an astonishment. 4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be a desolation: and thou shalt know that I [am] Jehovah. 5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword, in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end; 6 therefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will certainly appoint thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee; since thou hast not hated blood, blood shall pursue thee. 7 And I will make mount Seir a desolation and an astonishment, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth; 8 and I will fill his mountains with his slain. In thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy water-courses shall they fall that are slain with the sword. 9 I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not be inhabited: and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

lay: Ezekiel 35:9, Ezekiel 6:6, Joel 3:19, Malachi 1:3, Malachi 1:4

and thou: Ezekiel 35:9, Ezekiel 35:12, Ezekiel 6:7, Exodus 9:14, Exodus 14:4

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 35:15 - shalt

Cross-References

Genesis 35:2
And Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments;
Genesis 35:4
And they gave to Jacob all the strange gods that were in their hand, and the rings that were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the terebinth that [is] by Shechem.
Genesis 35:24
The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
Genesis 35:25
And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant: Dan and Naphtali.
Genesis 35:26
And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's maidservant: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob that were born to him in Padan-Aram.
Genesis 35:27
And Jacob came to Isaac his father to Mamre—to Kirjath-Arba, which is Hebron; where Abraham had sojourned, and Isaac.
Exodus 32:20
And he took the calf that they had made, and burned [it] with fire, and ground it to powder, and strewed [it] on the water, and made the children of Israel drink [it].
Deuteronomy 7:5
But thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall break down their altars, and shatter their statues, and hew down their Asherahs, and burn their graven images with fire.
Deuteronomy 7:25
The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire; thou shalt not covet the silver and gold [that is] on them and take it unto thee, lest thou be ensnared therein; for it is an abomination to Jehovah thy God.
Judges 9:6
And all the citizens of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king, by the memorial-oak that is in Shechem.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I will lay thy cities waste,.... Such as Dedan, Teman, Bozrah, and other cities of Idumea mentioned in Scripture; and figuratively may design all within the jurisdiction of Rome, the several cities of the antichristian states, called "the cities of the nations"; which will fall at the pouring out of the vials, Revelation 16:19:

and thou shalt be desolate; thoroughly and entirely, and remain so:

and thou shalt know that I am the Lord; that has done all this; that the hand of God was in it; and that this is a punishment inflicted by him, for their sins after mentioned; but not that they should know the Lord spiritually and savingly, and so as to yield obedience to him, and own and acknowledge him to be their God; though this may be the case of a remnant among them; see Revelation 11:13.


 
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