Ezekiel 12:20
And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation. And ye shall know that I am LORD.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
21And the word of LORD came to me, saying,
Cross References
Leviticus 26:31And I will make your cities a waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors.
Isaiah 3:26And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall be desolate and sit upon the ground.
Isaiah 24:3The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste, for LORD has spoken this word.
Isaiah 64:10Thy holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Jeremiah 4:23I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste and void, and the heavens, and they had no light.
Jeremiah 16:9For thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before 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 brid
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 12:18-21
Prediction of the Famine. ( b. c. 593.) 17 Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 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. 20… Read the whole commentary →