Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Thy cities a waste I make, and thou art a desolation, And thou hast known that I am Jehovah.
New American Standard Bible
And you will become a desolation.
Then you will know that I am the Lord.
King James Version
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
Holman Bible
and you will become a desolation.
Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
International Standard Version
I'm going to turn your cities into ghost towns, and you will become a ruin. Then you will learn that I am the LORD.
A Conservative Version
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shall be desolate. And thou shall know that I am LORD.
American Standard Version
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.
Amplified
“I will destroy your cities
And you will become a wasteland.
Then you shall know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord.
Bible in Basic English
I will make your towns unpeopled and you will be a waste; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
Darby Translation
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be a desolation: and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.
Julia Smith Translation
I will set thy cities a waste, and thou shalt be a desolation, and thou knewest that I am Jehovah.
King James 2000
I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate, and you shall know that I am the LORD.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Your cities I will make ruins, and you will be desolation, and [then] you will know that I [am] Yahweh,
Modern King James verseion
I will raze your cities, and you shall be ruined, and you shall know that I am Jehovah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thy cities will I break down, and thou shalt lie void: that thou mayest know, how that I am the LORD.
NET Bible
I will lay waste your cities; and you will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the Lord!
New Heart English Bible
I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am the LORD.
The Emphasized Bible
Thy cities, will I lay waste, And thou - a desolation, shalt become, So shalt thou know that I, am Yahweh.
Webster
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
World English Bible
I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
Interlinear
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Chorbah
References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 35:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prophecy Directed At Edom
3 and thou hast said to it: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am against thee, O mount Seir, And have stretched out My hand against thee, And made thee a desolation and an astonishment. 4 Thy cities a waste I make, and thou art a desolation, And thou hast known that I am Jehovah. 5 Because of thy having an enmity age-during, And thou dost saw the sons of Israel, By the hands of the sword, In the time of their calamity, In the time of the iniquity of the end:
Names
Cross References
Ezekiel 35:9
Desolations age-during I make thee, And thy cities do not return, And ye have known that I am Jehovah.
Malachi 1:3-4
Is not Esau Jacob's brother? -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And I love Jacob, and Esau I have hated, And I make his mountains a desolation, And his inheritance for dragons of a wilderness.
Exodus 9:14
for, at this time I am sending all My plagues unto thy heart, and on thy servants, and on thy people, so that thou knowest that there is none like Me in all the earth,
Exodus 14:4
and I have strengthened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hath pursued after them, and I am honoured on Pharaoh, and on all his force, and the Egyptians have known that I am Jehovah;' and they do so.
Ezekiel 6:6-7
In all your dwellings the cities are laid waste, And the high places are desolate, So that waste and desolate are your altars, And broken and ceased have your idols, And cut down have been your images, And blotted out have been your works.
Ezekiel 35:12
And thou hast known that I -- Jehovah, I have heard all thy despisings that thou hast spoken Against mountains of Israel, saying: A desolation, to us they were given for food.
Joel 3:19
Egypt a desolation becometh, And Edom a desolation, a wilderness, becometh, For violence to sons of Judah, Whose innocent blood they shed in their land.