Ezekiel 12:20
And the cities that are inhabited are laid waste, and the land is a desolation, and ye have known that I [am] Jehovah.'
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
21And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,
Cross References
Leviticus 26:31and I have made your cities a waste, and have made desolate your sanctuaries, and I smell not at your sweet fragrances;
Isaiah 3:26And lamented and mourned have her openings, Yea, she hath been emptied, on the earth she sitteth!
Isaiah 24:3Utterly emptied is the land, and utterly spoiled, For Jehovah hath spoken this word:
Isaiah 64:10Thy holy cities have been a wilderness, Zion a wilderness hath been, Jerusalem a desolation.
Jeremiah 4:23I looked [to] the land, and lo, waste and void, And unto the heavens, and their light is not.
Jeremiah 16:9For thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, 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 →