Ezekiel 12:20
18 Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;
19 And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.
And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
21 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
22 Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The inhabited cities will be laid waste, and the land will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
- KJV
- And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
- WEB
- The cities that are inhabited will be laid waste, and the land will be a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”’”
- ASV
- And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
- DARBY
- And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah.
- BLB
- And the cities that [were] inhabited will be dried up, and the land will become a desolation; and you⁺ will know that I [am] YHWH!’”
- ÅB
- Og de byer som det nå bor folk i, skal legges øde, og landet bli en ørken, og dere skal kjenne at jeg er Herren.
- OTB
- De bebodde byene vil bli lagt øde, og landet vil bli øde. Da vil dere vite at jeg er Herren.’”
- B1930
- Og de byer som det nu bor folk i, skal legges øde, og landet bli en ørken, og I skal kjenne at jeg er Herren.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 4:7
The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
Read in contextIsaiah 7:23–24
And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
Read in contextJeremiah 25:9
Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Read in contextIsaiah 3:26
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
Read in contextIsaiah 64:10–11
Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Read in contextIsaiah 24:12
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Read in contextJeremiah 16:9
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
Read in contextLamentations 5:18
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
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