Ezekiel 35:9

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.

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 .

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 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 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, ² "Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it, ³ and say to it, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, O Mount Seir, I am against you; I will stretch out My hand against you, And make you most desolate; ⁴ I shall lay your cities waste, And you shall be desolate. Then you shall know that I am the LORD. ⁵ "Because you have had an ancient hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, when their iniquity came to an end, ⁶ therefore, as I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you. ⁷ Thus I will make Mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it the one who leaves and the one who returns. ⁸ And I will fill its mountains with the slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those who are slain by the sword shall fall. ⁹ I will make you perpetually desolate, and your cities shall be uninhabited; then you shall know that I am the LORD.

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 the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." And there he built an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 17:1
Exodus 12:43-13:2">[xr] When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.

Genesis 18:1
Then the Lord appeared to him by the terebinth trees of Mamre, [fn] as he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day.

Genesis 26:2
Then the LORD appeared to him and said: "Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land of which I shall tell you.

Genesis 28:13
And behold, the LORD stood above it and said: "I am the LORD God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants.

Genesis 31:3
Then the LORD said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your family, and I will be with you."

Genesis 32:1
So 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 dwell there; and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother."

Genesis 35:2
And Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your garments.

Genesis 35:3
Then 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 in the way which 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.