Ezekiel 15:8
And I shall have made their land a wilderness, and desolate, because they have been transgressors, saith the Lord God.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.
In Context
Cross References
Isaiah 6:11And I said: How long, O Lord? And he said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land shall be left desolate.
Jeremiah 25:10And I will take away from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the mill, and the light of the lamp.
Ezekiel 14:13Son of man, when a land shall sin against me, so as to transgress grievously, I will stretch forth my hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof: and I will send famine upon it, and will destroy man and beast out of it.
Ezekiel 33:29And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have made their land waste and desolate, for all their abominations which they have committed.
Zephaniah 1:18Neither shall their silver and their gold be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord: all the land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy, for he shall make even a speedy destruction of all them that dwell in the land.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 15:2-8
Jerusalem a Condemned Vine. ( b. c. 593.) 1 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest? 3 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon? 4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work? 5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less… Read the whole commentary →