Ezekiel 12:20
Yea, the cities that are inhabited, shall be laid waste, And, the land, shall become, an astonishment,— So shall ye know that, I, am Yahweh.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
21And the word of Yahweh came unto me saying:
Cross References
Leviticus 26:31And I will give your cities unto desolation, And make your holy places dumb,—And will find no fragrance in your satisfying odour;
Isaiah 3:26And her gates shall mourn and lament,—And forsaken, on the ground, shall she sit.
Isaiah 24:3Emptied—emptied—shall be the earth yea pillaged—pillaged,—For, Yahweh, hath spoken this word.
Isaiah 64:10Thy holy cities, have become a wilderness,—Zion, a wilderness, hath become, Jerusalem, a desolation!
Jeremiah 4:23I beheld, The earth; and lo! it was waste and wild,—The heavens also and their light was not:
Jeremiah 16:9For, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, Behold me! causing to cease out of this place, Before your eyes, And in your days, The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, 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 →