Ezekiel 30:7

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They will be desolateamong desolate lands,and their cities will lieamong ruined cities.

Hebrew Names Version
They shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

King James Version
And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

English Standard Version
And they shall be desolated in the midst of desolated countries, and their cities shall be in the midst of cities that are laid waste.

New American Standard Bible
"They will be desolate In the midst of the desolated lands; And her cities will be In the midst of the devastated cities.

New Century Version
They will be the most deserted lands. Egypt's cities will be the worst of cities that lie in ruins.

Amplified Bible
"And they will be desolate In the midst of countries that are desolated; And her cities will be Among cities that are devastated [by plunder and slavery].

World English Bible
They shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And they shall be desolate in the middes of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the middes of the cities that are wasted.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"They will be desolate In the midst of the desolated lands; And her cities will be In the midst of the devastated cities.

Legacy Standard Bible
"They will be desolateIn the midst of the desolated lands;And her cities will beIn the midst of the cities laid waste.

Berean Standard Bible
They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will lie among ruined cities.

Contemporary English Version
Your nation of Egypt will be the most deserted place on earth, and its cities will lie in complete ruin.

Complete Jewish Bible
"They will be desolate even when compared with other desolate countries, likewise her cities in comparison with other ruined cities.

Darby Translation
And they shall be desolated in the midst of the countries that are desolated, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

Easy-to-Read Version
Egypt will join the other countries that were destroyed. Its cities will be among those that are in ruins.

George Lamsa Translation
And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that lie waste.

Good News Translation
The land will be the most desolate in the world, and its cities will be left totally in ruins.

Lexham English Bible
"And they will be desolate in the midst of desolate countries, and its cities will be in the midst of ruined cities.

Literal Translation
And they will be ruined amidst the lands being wasted. And her cities shall be in the midst of the desolated cities.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
amonge other desolate countrees they shal be made desolate, & amoge other waist cities they shalbe waisted.

American Standard Version
And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

Bible in Basic English
And she will be made waste among the countries which have been made waste, and her towns will be among the towns which are unpeopled.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

King James Version (1611)
And they shall bee desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shalbe in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Among other desolate countreys they shalbe made desolate, among other waste cities they shalbe wasted.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And it shall be made desolate in the midst of desolate countries, and their cities shall be desolate in the midst of desolate cities:

English Revised Version
And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei schulen be distried in the myddis of londis maad desolat, and the citees therof schulen be in the myddis of citees forsakun.

Update Bible Version
And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries [that are] desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities [that are] wasted.

New English Translation
They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will be among ruined cities.

New King James Version
"They shall be desolate in the midst of the desolate countries, And her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are laid waste.

New Living Translation
Egypt will be desolate, surrounded by desolate nations, and its cities will be in ruins, surrounded by other ruined cities.

New Life Bible
"They will be a waste among the lands that are laid waste. And her cities will be among the destroyed cities.

New Revised Standard
They shall be desolated among other desolated countries, and their cities shall lie among cities laid waste.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So shall they be made desolate in the midst of lands that are desolate,- And :his cities - in the midst of cities that are laid waste, shall be found.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall be desolate in the midst of the lands that are desolate, and the cities thereof shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

Revised Standard Version
And she shall be desolated in the midst of desolated countries and her cities shall be in the midst of cities that are laid waste.

Young's Literal Translation
And they have been desolated in the midst of desolate lands, And its cities are in the midst of wasted cities.

Contextual Overview

¹ God , the Master, spoke to me: "Son of man, preach. Give them the Message of God , the Master. Wail: "‘Doomsday!' Time's up! God 's big day of judgment is near. Thick clouds are rolling in. It's doomsday for the nations. Death will rain down on Egypt. Terror will paralyze Ethiopia When they see the Egyptians killed, their wealth hauled off, their foundations demolished, And Ethiopia, Put, Lud, Arabia, Libya —all of Egypt's old allies— killed right along with them. ⁶"‘ God says: "‘Egypt's allies will fall and her proud strength will collapse— From Migdol in the north to Syene in the south, a great slaughter in Egypt! Decree of God , the Master. Egypt, most desolate of the desolate, her cities wasted beyond wasting, Will realize that I am God when I burn her down and her helpers are knocked flat. ⁹ "‘When that happens, I'll send out messengers by ship to sound the alarm among the easygoing Ethiopians. They'll be terrorized. Egypt's doomed! Judgment's coming! ¹⁰"‘ God , the Master, says: "‘I'll put a stop to Egypt's arrogance. I'll use Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to do it. He and his army, the most brutal of nations, shall be used to destroy the country. They'll brandish their swords and fill Egypt with corpses. I'll dry up the Nile and sell off the land to a bunch of crooks. I'll hire outsiders to come in and waste the country, strip it clean. I, God , have said so. ¹³"‘And now this is what God , the Master, says: "‘I'll smash all the no-god idols; I'll topple all those huge statues in Memphis. The prince of Egypt will be gone for good, and in his place I'll put fear—fear throughout Egypt! I'll demolish Pathros, burn Zoan to the ground, and punish Thebes, Pour my wrath on Pelusium, Egypt's fort, and knock Thebes off its proud pedestal. I'll set Egypt on fire: Pelusium will writhe in pain, Thebes blown away, Memphis raped. The young warriors of On and Pi-beseth will be killed and the cities exiled. A dark day for Tahpanhes when I shatter Egypt, When I break Egyptian power and put an end to her arrogant oppression! She'll disappear in a cloud of dust, her cities hauled off as exiles. That's how I'll punish Egypt, and that's how she'll realize that I am God .'"

Bible Verse Review
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Ezekiel 29:12, Ezekiel 32:18-32, Jeremiah 25:18-26, Jeremiah 46:1 - Jeremiah 51:64

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 29:9 - the land Ezekiel 33:28 - and the pomp

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate,.... Or among them, shall be ranked with them, and be as desolate as they are; as Judea and other countries, ravaged by the same enemy:

and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted; undergo the same fate as they have done, as Jerusalem and others. The cities of Egypt were very numerous; Diodorus Siculus n says, that in ancient times Egypt had cities and villages of note, more than 18,000. Herodotus o writes, that it was said, that under King Amasis there were 20,000 cities in it; and the first mentioned writer p says, under Ptolemy Lagus they were reckoned more than 30,000; and, according to Theocritus q, under Ptolemy Philadelphus they were 33,339.

n Bibl. l. 1. p. 19. o Euterpe, sive l. 2. c. 177. p Bibl. l. 1. p. 19. q Idyll. 17. v. 82.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 30:7. Shall be desolate — All these countries shall be desolated, and the places named shall be chief in these desolations.