Ezekiel 12:20
And cities that are now inhabited will become desolate, and the land will be forsaken. And you shall know that I am the Lord.”
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In Context
21And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
Cross References
Leviticus 26:31so much so that I will reduce your cities to a wilderness, and I will make your Sanctuaries desolate, and I will no longer accept the most sweet odors.
Isaiah 3:26And her gates will grieve and mourn. And she will sit on the ground, desolate.
Isaiah 24:3The earth will be utterly devastated and utterly plundered. For the Lord has spoken this word.
Isaiah 64:10The city of your sanctuary has become a desert. Zion has become a desert. Jerusalem is desolate.
Jeremiah 4:23I gazed upon the earth, and behold, it was empty and brought to nothing. And I gazed upon the heavens, but there was no light in them.
Jeremiah 16:9For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I will take away from this place, in your sight and in your days, the voice of gladness and the voice of rejoicing, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride.
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 →