Ezekiel 12:20
And the cities that are inhabited are laid waste, and the land is a desolation, and you have known that I [am] YHWH.”
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
21And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying,
Cross References
Leviticus 26:31and I have made your cities a ruin, and have made your sanctuaries desolate, and I do not smell your refreshing fragrance;
Isaiah 3:26And her openings have lamented and mourned, || Indeed, she has been emptied, she sits on the earth!”
Isaiah 24:3The earth is utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled, || For YHWH has spoken this word:
Isaiah 64:10Your holy cities have been a wilderness, || Zion has been a wilderness, || Jerusalem a desolation.
Jeremiah 4:23I looked [to] the earth, and behold—formless and void, || And to the heavens, and they [had] no light.
Jeremiah 16:9For thus said YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel: “Behold, I am causing to cease from this place, || Before your eyes, and in your days, || The voice of joy, and the voice of rejoicing, || The voice of bridegroom and voice of 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 →