Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shall be desolate. And thou shall know that I am LORD.
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.
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Thy cities a waste I make, and thou art a desolation, And thou hast known that I am Jehovah.
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 say to it, Thus says lord LORD: Behold, I am against thee, O mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against thee, and I will make thee a desolation and an astonishment. 4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shall be desolate. And thou shall know that I am LORD. 5 Because thou have had a perpetual enmity, and have given over the sons of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end,
Names
Cross References
Ezekiel 35:9
I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall not be inhabited. And ye shall know that I am LORD.
Malachi 1:3-4
but Esau I regarded inferior, and made his mountains a desolation, and [gave] his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.
Exodus 9:14
For this time I will send all my plagues upon thy heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, that thou may know that there is none like me in all the earth.
Exodus 14:4
And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he shall follow after them, and I will get for me honor upon Pharaoh, and upon all his army, and the Egyptians shall know that I am LORD. And they did so.
Ezekiel 6:6-7
In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate, that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your sun-images may be hewn down,
Ezekiel 35:12
And thou shall know that I, LORD, have heard all thy revilings which thou have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate. They are given us to devour.
Joel 3:19
Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the sons of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.