Ezekiel 35:4

I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD.

I will lay {H7760} thy cities {H5892} waste {H2723}, and thou shalt be desolate {H8077}, and thou shalt know {H3045} that I am the LORD {H3068}.

I will make your cities ruins and make you an utter waste, and you will know that I am ADONAI.

I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.

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Cross-References

  • Ezekiel 35:9 (6 votes)

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

  • Malachi 1:3 (3 votes)

    And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

  • Malachi 1:4 (3 votes)

    Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.

  • Joel 3:19 (2 votes)

    Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence [against] the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

  • Exodus 9:14 (2 votes)

    For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that [there is] none like me in all the earth.

  • Exodus 14:4 (2 votes)

    And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I [am] the LORD. And they did so.

  • Ezekiel 35:12 (2 votes)

    And thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD, [and that] I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.