Ezekiel 12:20
And the cities that are inhabited, shall be left voyde, and the land shall be desolate, and yee shall knowe that I am the Lord.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
21And the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,
Cross References
Leviticus 26:31And I will make your cities desolate, and bring your Sanctuarie vnto nought, and will not smelll the sauour of your sweete odours.
Isaiah 3:26Then shall her gates mourne and lament, and she, being desolate, shall sit vpon the ground.
Isaiah 24:3The earth shalbe cleane emptied, and vtterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this worde.
Isaiah 64:10Thine holy cities lye waste: Zion is a wildernes, and Ierusalem a desart.
Jeremiah 4:23I haue looked vpon the earth, and loe, it was without forme and voide: and to the heauens, and they had no light.
Jeremiah 16:9For thus sayth the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel, Beholde, I wil cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, euen in your dayes the voyce of myrth, and the voyce of gladnes, the voyce of the bridegrome and the voyce 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 →