Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

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

New American Standard Bible

I will make you an everlasting desolation and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will 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.

Holman Bible

I will make you a perpetual desolation; your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

International Standard Version

I will turn you into an everlasting wasteland, and your cities will never be inhabited. Then you'll learn that I am the LORD!

A Conservative Version

I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall not be inhabited. And ye shall know that I am LORD.

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.

Amplified

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.

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.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

I will give thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not be inhabited: and ye knew that I am Jehovah.

King James 2000

I will make you perpetual desolations, and your cities shall not return: and you shall know that I am the LORD.

Lexham Expanded Bible

{An everlasting desolation} I will make you, and your cities will not return, and you will know that I [am] Yahweh.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

I will make thee a perpetual wilderness, so that no man shall dwell in thy cities: that ye may know how that I am the LORD.

NET Bible

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 Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

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

Webster

I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: 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.

Youngs Literal Translation

Desolations age-during I make thee, And thy cities do not return, And ye have known that I am Jehovah.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
I will make
נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

עלם עולם 
`owlam 
Usage: 438

שׁממה שׁממה 
Sh@mamah 
Usage: 57

and thy cities
עיר ער עיר 
`iyr 
Usage: 1094

שׁוּב 
Shuwb 
Usage: 1058

References

Fausets

Morish

Context Readings

Prophecy Directed At Edom

8 And I will fill his mountains with his dead. In your hills, and your valleys, and all your rivers, those slain with the sword shall fall in them. 9 I will make you ruins forever, and your cities shall not be inhabited. And you shall know that I am Jehovah. 10 Because you have said, These two nations and these two lands shall be mine, and we shall possess it; yet Jehovah was there;


Cross References

Ezekiel 6:7

And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and you shall know that I am Jehovah.

Ezekiel 25:13

therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: I will also stretch out My hand on Edom, and will cut man and beast off from it; and I will make it a waste from Teman, even to Dedan they shall fall by the sword.

Ezekiel 35:4

I will raze your cities, and you shall be ruined, and you shall know that I am Jehovah.

Jeremiah 49:13

For I have sworn by Myself, says Jehovah, that Bozrah shall become a ruin, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. And all its cities shall be wastes forever.

Jeremiah 49:17-18

Also Edom shall be a ruin. Everyone who goes by it shall be amazed and shall hiss at all its plagues.

Ezekiel 7:4

And My eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity. But I will repay your ways on you, and your abominations shall be in your midst; and you shall know that I am Jehovah.

Ezekiel 7:9

And My eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; I will repay you according to your ways and your abominations that are in your midst. And you shall know that I am Jehovah who strikes.

Ezekiel 36:11

And I will multiply men and beast on you, and they shall increase and be fruitful. And I will make you dwell as before, and I will do better to you than at your beginnings. And you shall know that I am Jehovah.

Zephaniah 2:9

Therefore, as I live, says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be like Sodom, and the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah; a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a ruin forever. The remnant of My people shall plunder them, and the remnant of My people shall possess them.

Malachi 1:3-4

and I hated Esau and made his mountains a desolation, and his inheritance to be for the jackals of the wilderness.

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