Ezekiel 35:9

⁷ I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.

⁸ I will fill its mountains with the slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines.

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

¹⁰ Because you have said, ‘These two nations and countries will be ours, and we will possess them,’ even though the LORD was there,

¹¹ therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will treat you according to the anger and jealousy you showed in your hatred against them, and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.

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: I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
KJV: I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
WEB: I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
ASV: I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall not be inhabited; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
DARBY: I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not be inhabited: and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah.
BLB: I will make you a desolation forever, and your cities will not be inhabited. You⁺ will know that I [am] YHWH.

ÅB: Til evige ørkener vil jeg gjøre deg, og dine byer skal ikke reise seg igjen, og dere skal kjenne at jeg er Herren.
OTB: Jeg vil gjøre deg til en evig ødeleggelse, og dine byer skal ikke bli bebodd. Da skal du kjenne at jeg er Herren.
B1930: Til evige ørkener vil jeg gjøre dig, og dine byer skal ikke reise sig igjen, og I skal kjenne at jeg er Herren.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Ezekiel 25:13
therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.
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Ezekiel 6:7
The slain will fall among you, and 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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Ezekiel 35:4
I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
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Ezekiel 7:4
I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’
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Jeremiah 49:17–18
“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
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Ezekiel 36:11
I will fill you with people and animals, and they will multiply and be fruitful. I will make you as inhabited as you once were, and I will make you prosper more than before. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
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Jeremiah 49:13
For by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”
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