Parallel Verses

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.

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!

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 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.

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 its mountains with its slain. In thy hills and in thy valleys and in all thy watercourses they shall fall who are slain with the sword. 9 I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall not be inhabited. And ye shall know that I am LORD. 10 Because thou have said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it, whereas LORD was there,


Cross References

Ezekiel 6:7

And the slain shall fall in the midst of you. And ye shall know that I am LORD.

Ezekiel 25:13

therefore thus says lord LORD: I will stretch out my hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it, and I will make it desolate. From Teman, even to Dedan they shall fall by the sword.

Ezekiel 35:4

I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shall be desolate. And thou shall know that I am LORD.

Jeremiah 49:13

For I have sworn by myself, says LORD, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse, and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.

Jeremiah 49:17-18

And Edom shall become an astonishment. Everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues of it.

Ezekiel 7:4

And my eye shall not spare thee, nor will I have pity. But I will bring thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee. And ye shall know that I am LORD.

Ezekiel 7:9

And my eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity. I will bring upon thee according to thy ways. And thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee. And ye shall know that I, LORD, do smite.

Ezekiel 36:11

And I will multiply upon you man and beast, and they shall increase and be fruitful. And I will cause you to be inhabited according to your former estate, and will do better [to you] than at your beginnings. And ye shall know that

Zephaniah 2:9

Therefore as I live, says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The residue of my people shall make a

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.

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