Ezekiel 12:20
And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid in ruins, and the land shall be made desolate: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
21And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
Cross References
Leviticus 26:31And I will render your cities a waste, and I will make desolate your sanctuaries, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors.
Isaiah 3:26And then shall her gates lament and mourn; and stript of all shall she sit upon the ground.
Isaiah 24:3Empty, emptied out shall be the land, and spoiled, utterly spoiled; for the Lord hath spoken this word.
Isaiah 64:10(64:9) Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem, a desolate place.
Jeremiah 4:23I look at the earth, and, lo, it is without form and void; and toward the heavens, and their light is gone.
Jeremiah 16:9For thus hath said the 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 gladness, and the voice of joy, 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 →