Ezekiel 35:9

The Darby Translation

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will make you a perpetual desolation; your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Hebrew Names Version
I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited; and you shall know that I am the LORD.

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

English Standard Version
I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord .

New American Standard Bible
"I will make you a permanent desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

New Century Version
I will make you a ruin forever; no one will live in your cities. Then you will know that I am the Lord .

Amplified Bible
"I will make you an everlasting desolation and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know [without any doubt] that I am the LORD.

Geneva Bible (1587)
I wil make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not returne, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lord.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I will make you an everlasting desolation and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

Legacy Standard Bible
I will make you an everlasting desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

Berean Standard Bible
I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
and your land will lie in ruins forever. No one will live in your towns ever again. You will know that I am the Lord .

Complete Jewish Bible
I will turn you into perpetual ruins; your cities will not return; and you will know that I am Adonai .

Easy-to-Read Version
I will make you empty forever. No one will live in your cities. Then you will know that I am the Lord ."

George Lamsa Translation
I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited; and you shall know that I am the LORD.

Good News Translation
I will make you desolate forever, and no one will live in your cities again. Then you will know that I am the Lord .

Lexham English Bible
An everlasting desolation I will make you, and your cities will not return, and you will know that I am Yahweh.

Literal Translation
I will make you ruins forever, and your cities shall not be inhabited. And you shall know that I am Jehovah.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I wil make the a perpetuall wildernesse, so that noman shal dwell in thy cities: yt ye maye knowe, how yt I am the LORDE.

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

Bible in Basic English
I will make you waste for ever, and your towns will be unpeopled: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

King James Version (1611)
I will make thee perpetuall desolations, & thy cities shall not returne, and ye shal know that I am the Lord

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I wyll make thee a perpetuall wildernes, so that thy cities shal not returne: that ye may knowe that I am the Lorde.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
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.

English Revised Version
I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not be inhabited: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

World English Bible
I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y schal yyue thee in to euerlastynge wildirnessis, and thi citees schulen not be enhabitid; and ye schulen wite, that Y am the Lord God.

Update Bible Version
I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

Webster's Bible Translation
I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.

New English Translation
I will turn you into a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord .

New King James Version
I will make you perpetually desolate, and your cities shall be uninhabited; then you shall know that I am the LORD.

New Living Translation
I will make you desolate forever. Your cities will never be rebuilt. Then you will know that I am the Lord .

New Life Bible
I will destroy you forever, and no one will live in your cities. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

New Revised Standard
I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall never be inhabited. Then you shall know that I am the Lord .

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Desolations age-abiding, will I make thee, And thy cities, shall not be inhabited,- shall ye know that I, am Yahweh.

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

Revised Standard Version
I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

Young's Literal Translation
Desolations age-during I make thee, And thy cities do not return, And ye have 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

I will make: After being subdued by Nebuchadnezzar, about five years after the destruction of Jerusalem, many of the Edomites, during the Babylonian captivity, being driven from their ancient habitation by the Nabatheans, seized upon the south-western part of Judea; but afterwards they were conquered by Hyrcanus, and reduced to the necessity of embracing the Jewish religion; and at last became either incorporated with that nation, or swallowed up and lost among the Nabathean Arabs, so that the very name was abolished and disused about the end of the first century after Christ. Their country is now barren; and their cities, even Bozra and Petra, totally demolished and in ruins.

perpetual: Ezekiel 35:4, Ezekiel 25:13, Jeremiah 49:17, Jeremiah 49:18, Zephaniah 2:9, Malachi 1:3, Malachi 1:4

and ye: Ezekiel 6:7, Ezekiel 7:4, Ezekiel 7:9, Ezekiel 36:11

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 25:12 - perpetual Jeremiah 51:62 - to cut Ezekiel 25:5 - and ye Ezekiel 35:7 - most desolate Ezekiel 35:12 - And thou Ezekiel 35:15 - and they Ezekiel 37:6 - ye shall

Cross-References

Genesis 12:7
And Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land. And there he built an altar to Jehovah who had appeared to him.

Genesis 17:1
And Abram was ninety-nine years old, when Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said to him, I [am] the Almighty God: walk before my face, and be perfect.

Genesis 18:1
And Jehovah appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre. And he sat at the tent-door in the heat of the day.

Genesis 26:2
And Jehovah appeared to him and said, Go not down to Egypt: dwell in the land that I shall tell thee of.

Genesis 28:13
And behold, Jehovah stood above it. And he said, I am Jehovah, the God of Abraham, thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land on which thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.

Genesis 31:3
And Jehovah said to Jacob, Return into the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.

Genesis 32:1
And Jacob went on his way; and the angels of God met him.

Genesis 35:1
And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar unto the God that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.

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 35:3
and we will arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar to the God that answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way that I went.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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, Malachi 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, Revelation 18:21:

and ye shall know that I am the Lord; Revelation 18:21- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Return - Or, “be inhabited.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 35:9. Perpetual desolations — Thou shalt have perpetual desolation for thy perpetual hatred.