Ezekiel 35:9

Easy-to-Read Version

I will make you empty forever. No one will live in your cities. Then you will know that I am the Lord ."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will make you a perpetual desolation; your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Hebrew Names Version
I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited; and you shall know that I am the LORD.

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

English Standard Version
I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord .

New American Standard Bible
"I will make you a permanent desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

New Century Version
I will make you a ruin forever; no one will live in your cities. Then you will know that I am the Lord .

Amplified Bible
"I will make you an everlasting desolation and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know [without any doubt] that I am the LORD.

Geneva Bible (1587)
I wil make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not returne, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lord.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I will make you an everlasting desolation and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

Legacy Standard Bible
I will make you an everlasting desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

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

Contemporary English Version
and your land will lie in ruins forever. No one will live in your towns ever again. You will know that I am the Lord .

Complete Jewish Bible
I will turn you into perpetual ruins; your cities will not return; and you will know that I am Adonai .

Darby Translation
I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not be inhabited: and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah.

George Lamsa Translation
I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited; and you shall know that I am the LORD.

Good News Translation
I will make you desolate forever, and no one will live in your cities again. Then you will know that I am the Lord .

Lexham English Bible
An everlasting desolation I will make you, and your cities will not return, and you will know that I am Yahweh.

Literal Translation
I will make you ruins forever, and your cities shall not be inhabited. And you shall know that I am Jehovah.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I wil make the a perpetuall wildernesse, so that noman shal dwell in thy cities: yt ye maye knowe, how yt I am the LORDE.

American Standard Version
I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall not be inhabited; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

Bible in Basic English
I will make you waste for ever, and your towns will be unpeopled: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

King James Version (1611)
I will make thee perpetuall desolations, & thy cities shall not returne, and ye shal know that I am the Lord

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I wyll make thee a perpetuall wildernes, so that thy cities shal not returne: that ye may knowe that I am the Lorde.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall not be inhabited any more: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

English Revised Version
I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not be inhabited: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

World English Bible
I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y schal yyue thee in to euerlastynge wildirnessis, and thi citees schulen not be enhabitid; and ye schulen wite, that Y am the Lord God.

Update Bible Version
I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

Webster's Bible Translation
I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.

New English Translation
I will turn you into a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord .

New King James Version
I will make you perpetually desolate, and your cities shall be uninhabited; then you shall know that I am the LORD.

New Living Translation
I will make you desolate forever. Your cities will never be rebuilt. Then you will know that I am the Lord .

New Life Bible
I will destroy you forever, and no one will live in your cities. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

New Revised Standard
I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall never be inhabited. Then you shall know that I am the Lord .

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Desolations age-abiding, will I make thee, And thy cities, shall not be inhabited,- shall ye know that I, am Yahweh.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will make thee everlasting desolations, and thy cities shall not be inhabited: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord God.

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

Young's Literal Translation
Desolations age-during I make thee, And thy cities do not return, And ye have known that I [am] Jehovah.

Contextual Overview

¹ The word of the Lord came to me. He said, ² "Son of man, look toward Mount Seir and speak against it for me. ³ Say to it, ‘This is what the Lord God says: "‘I am against you, Mount Seir! I will punish you and make you an empty wasteland. ⁴ I will destroy your cities, and you will become empty. Then you will know that I am the Lord . ⁵ "‘Why? Because you have always been against my people. You used your sword against Israel at the time of their trouble, at the time of their final punishment.'" ⁶ So the Lord God says, "But I promise by my own life that I will let death have you. Death will chase you. You did not hate killing people, so death will chase you. ⁷ I will make Mount Seir an empty ruin. I will kill everyone who enters or leaves that city. ⁸ I will cover its mountains with those who are killed. There will be dead bodies all over your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines. ⁹ I will make you empty forever. No one will live in your cities. Then you will know that I am the Lord ."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will make: After being subdued by Nebuchadnezzar, about five years after the destruction of Jerusalem, many of the Edomites, during the Babylonian captivity, being driven from their ancient habitation by the Nabatheans, seized upon the south-western part of Judea; but afterwards they were conquered by Hyrcanus, and reduced to the necessity of embracing the Jewish religion; and at last became either incorporated with that nation, or swallowed up and lost among the Nabathean Arabs, so that the very name was abolished and disused about the end of the first century after Christ. Their country is now barren; and their cities, even Bozra and Petra, totally demolished and in ruins.

perpetual: Ezekiel 35:4, Ezekiel 25:13, Jeremiah 49:17, Jeremiah 49:18, Zephaniah 2:9, Malachi 1:3, Malachi 1:4

and ye: Ezekiel 6:7, Ezekiel 7:4, Ezekiel 7:9, Ezekiel 36:11

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 25:12 - perpetual Jeremiah 51:62 - to cut Ezekiel 25:5 - and ye Ezekiel 35:7 - most desolate Ezekiel 35:12 - And thou Ezekiel 35:15 - and they Ezekiel 37:6 - ye shall

Cross-References

Genesis 12:7
The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your descendants." Abram built an altar to honor the Lord who appeared to him there.

Genesis 17:1
When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him. He said, "I am God All-Powerful. Obey me and live the right way.

Genesis 18:1
Later, the Lord again appeared to Abraham near the oak trees of Mamre. It was the hottest part of the day, and Abraham was sitting at the door of his tent.

Genesis 26:2
The Lord spoke to Isaac and said, "Don't go down to Egypt. Live in the land that I commanded you to live in.

Genesis 28:13
And then Jacob saw the Lord standing by the ladder. He said, "I am the Lord , the God of your grandfather Abraham. I am the God of Isaac. I will give you the land that you are lying on now. I will give this land to you and to your children.

Genesis 31:3
The Lord said to Jacob, "Go back to your own land where your ancestors lived. I will be with you."

Genesis 32:1
Jacob also left that place. While he was traveling, he saw God's angels.

Genesis 35:1
God said to Jacob, "Go to the town of Bethel. That is where I appeared to you when you were running away from your brother Esau. Live there and make an altar to honor me as El, the God who appeared to you."

Genesis 35:2
So Jacob told his family and all the other people with him, "Destroy all these foreign gods that you have. Make yourselves pure. Put on clean clothes.

Genesis 35:3
We will leave here and go to Bethel. There I will build an altar to the God who has always helped me during times of trouble. He has been with me wherever I have gone."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return,.... To their former dignity and glory; should not be built and inhabited again, but lie waste for ever: this agrees with what is prophesied of Edom, Malachi 1:4 and will be true of Rome or Babylon when destroyed; it will never rise more, but be like a millstone in the midst of the sea, Revelation 18:21:

and ye shall know that I am the Lord; Revelation 18:21- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Return - Or, “be inhabited.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 35:9. Perpetual desolations — Thou shalt have perpetual desolation for thy perpetual hatred.