Ezekiel 12:20
The inhabited cities will be laid waste, and the land will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
21Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Cross References
Leviticus 26:31I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.
Isaiah 3:26And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
Isaiah 24:3The earth will be utterly laid waste and thoroughly plundered. For the LORD has spoken this word.
Isaiah 64:10Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
Jeremiah 4:23I looked at the earth, and it was formless and void; I looked to the heavens, and they had no light.
Jeremiah 16:9For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.
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 →