Ezekiel 12:20
And the cities that are now inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate: and you shall know that I am the Lord.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
21And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
Cross References
Leviticus 26:31Insomuch that I will bring your cities to be a wilderness, and I will make your sanctuaries desolate, and will receive no more your sweet odours.
Isaiah 3:26And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall sit desolate on the ground.
Isaiah 24:3With desolation shall the earth be laid waste, and it shall be utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.
Isaiah 64:10The city of thy sanctuary is become a desert, Sion is made a desert, Jerusalem is desolate.
Jeremiah 4:23I beheld the earth, and lo it was void, and nothing: and the heavens, and there was no light in them.
Jeremiah 16:9For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold I will take away out of this place in your sight, and in your days the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, 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 →