Parallel Verses
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 American Standard Bible
I will make you an everlasting
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
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 King James verseion
I will make you ruins forever, and your cities shall not be inhabited. And you shall know that I am Jehovah.
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.
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.
Themes
Desolation » Who shall be desolate
Edomites, the » Predictions respecting » Utter desolation of their country
Interlinear
Nathan
`owlam
References
Fausets
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 35:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prophecy Directed At Edom
8 I will fill its mountains with its dead; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines, those killed by the sword will fall. 9 I will turn you into a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord. 10 "'You said, "These two nations, these two lands will be mine, and we will possess them," -- although the Lord was there --
Cross References
Ezekiel 6:7
The slain will fall among you and then you will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 25:13
So this is what the sovereign Lord says: I will stretch out my hand against Edom, and I will kill the people and animals within her, and I will make her desolate; from Teman to Dedan they will die by the sword.
Ezekiel 35:4
I will lay waste your cities; and you will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the Lord!
Jeremiah 49:13
For I solemnly swear," says the Lord, "that Bozrah will become a pile of ruins. It will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example to be used in curses. All the towns around it will lie in ruins forever."
Jeremiah 49:17-18
"Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by it will be filled with horror; they will hiss out their scorn because of all the disasters that have happened to it.
Ezekiel 7:4
My eye will not pity you; I will not spare you. For I will hold you responsible for your behavior, and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. Then you will know that I am the Lord!
Ezekiel 7:9
My eye will not pity you; I will not spare you. For your behavior I will hold you accountable, and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. Then you will know that it is I, the Lord, who is striking you.
Ezekiel 36:11
I will increase the number of people and animals on you; they will increase and be fruitful. I will cause you to be inhabited as in ancient times, and will do more good for you than at the beginning of your history. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
Zephaniah 2:9
Therefore, as surely as I live," says the Lord who commands armies, the God of Israel, "be certain that Moab will become like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah. They will be overrun by weeds, filled with salt pits, and permanently desolate. Those of my people who are left will plunder their belongings; those who are left in Judah will take possession of their land."
Malachi 1:3-4
and rejected Esau. I turned Esau's mountains into a deserted wasteland and gave his territory to the wild jackals."