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Legacy Standard Bible

Ezekiel 35:9

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Edomites;   The Topic Concordance - Desolation;   Enemies;   Hate;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Edomites, the;  

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

1Moreover, the word of Yahweh came to me saying, 2"Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it 3and say to it, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh,"Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir,And I will stretch out My hand against youAnd make you a desolation and a desecration. 4I will lay waste your cities,And you will become a desolation.Then you will know that I am Yahweh. 5Because you have had everlasting enmity and have delivered the sons of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their disaster, at the time of the punishment of the end, 6therefore as I live," declares Lord Yahweh, "I will prepare you for bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you; you surely have not hated bloodshed, so bloodshed will pursue you. 7I will make Mount Seir a waste and a desolation, and I will cut off from it the one who passes through and returns. 8I will fill its mountains with its slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those slain by the sword will fall. 9I will make you an everlasting desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

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
Then Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, "To your seed I will give this land." So he built an altar there to Yahweh who had appeared to him.
Genesis 17:1
Now it happened that when Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him,"I am God Almighty;Walk before Me and be blameless,
Genesis 18:1
Then Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, while he was sitting at the tent door in the heat of the day.
Genesis 26:2
And Yahweh appeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land of which I shall tell you.
Genesis 28:13
And behold, Yahweh stood above it and said, "I am Yahweh, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie, I will give it to you and to your seed.
Genesis 31:3
Then Yahweh said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your kin, and I will be with you."
Genesis 32:1
Now Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
Genesis 35:1
Then God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel and live there, and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."
Genesis 35:2
So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods which are among you and cleanse yourselves and change your garments;
Genesis 35:3
and let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone."

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.


 
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