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
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
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.
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 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.