Ezekiel 35:9

I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

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In The King James Version

I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

In Context

8I will fill its mountains with its slain. The slain with the sword will fall in your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses.

10“‘“Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two countries will be mine, and we will possess it,’ although the LORD was there,

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Cross References

Jeremiah 49:13For I have sworn by myself,” says the LORD, “that Bozrah will become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. All its cities will be perpetual wastes.”

Ezekiel 6:7The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 7:4My eye will not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations will be among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’

Ezekiel 25:13therefore the Lord GOD says, “I will stretch out my hand on Edom, and will cut off man and animal from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman. They will fall by the sword even to Dedan.

Ezekiel 36:11I will multiply man and animal on you. They will increase and be fruitful. I will cause you to be inhabited as you were before, and you will do better than at your beginnings. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

Malachi 1:3but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 35:2-10

The Fall of Edom. ( b. c. 587.) 1 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it, 3 And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate. 4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord . 5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of… Read the whole commentary →

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