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Ezekiel 35:4

Judgment

2 “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it,

3 and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir. I will stretch out My hand against you and make you a desolate waste.

I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

5 Because you harbored an ancient hatred and delivered the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their disaster at the final stage of their punishment,

6 therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, it will pursue you.

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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.

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BSB
I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
KJV
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
WEB
I will lay your cities waste, and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
ASV
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.
DARBY
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be a desolation: and thou shalt know that I [am] Jehovah.
BLB
I will make your cities a ruin, and you will become a desolation. And you will know that I [am] YHWH.
ÅB
Dine byer vil jeg gjøre til grushoper, og du selv skal bli til en ørken, og du skal kjenne at jeg er Herren.
OTB
Jeg vil gjøre dine byer til ruiner, og du skal bli en ødeleggelse. Da skal du kjenne at jeg er Herren.
B1930
Dine byer vil jeg gjøre til grushoper, og du selv skal bli til en ørken, og du skal kjenne at jeg er Herren.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Ezekiel 35:9

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

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  • Malachi 1:3–4

    but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”

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  • Exodus 14:4

    And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart so that he will pursue them. But I will gain honor by means of Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.” So this is what the Israelites did.

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  • Ezekiel 35:12

    Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard every contemptuous word you uttered against the mountains of Israel when you said, ‘They are desolate; they are given to us to devour!’

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  • Joel 3:19

    Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.

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  • Exodus 9:14

    Otherwise, I will send all My plagues against you and your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth.

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  • Ezekiel 6:6–7

    Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.

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