Ezekiel 35:9

Ezekiel 35:9 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
• New International Version (NIV)I will make you desolate forever; your towns will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
• English Standard Version (ESV)I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
• New King James Version (NKJV)I will make you perpetually desolate, and your cities shall be uninhabited; then you shall know that I am the Lord.

Context of Ezekiel 35:9

7I will make Mount Seir a waste and a desolation and I will eliminate from it one who passes through and returns. 8I will fill its mountains with its slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines. I will make you a permanent desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord. 10“Since you have said, ‘These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we will possess them,’ although the Lord was there, 11therefore as I live,” declares the Lord God, “I will deal with you according to your anger and according to your envy which you displayed because of your hatred for them; so I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.

Ezekiel 35:9 word by word

שִֽׁמְמ֤וֹת עוֹלָם֙ אֶתֶּנְךָ֔ וְעָרֶ֖יךָ לֹ֣א תָשֹׁ֑בְנָה וִֽידַעְתֶּ֖ם כִּֽי־אֲנִ֥י יְהוָֽה׃Read the interlinear

• I will makeנָתַןnâthan · to give: makeH5414
• you a permanentעוֹלָם‛ôlâm ‛ôlâm · forever: enduringH5769
• desolationשְׁמָמָהshemâmâh shimâmâh · devastationH8077
• and your citiesעִיר‛îyr ‛âr ‛âyar · cityH5892
• will not be inhabitedיָשַׁבyâshab · to dwellH3427
• Then you will knowיָדַעyâda‛ · to knowH3045
• that I am the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068

Cross-references for Ezekiel 35:9

• Ezekiel 35:4I will turn your cities to ruins, And you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
• Ezekiel 25:13therefore this is what the Lord God says: “I will also reach out with My hand against Edom and eliminate human and animal life from it. And I will turn it into ruins; from Teman even to Dedan they will fall by the sword.
• Jeremiah 49:17“Edom will become an object of horror; everyone who passes by it will be appalled and will hiss at all its wounds.
• Zephaniah 2:9Therefore, as I live,” declares the Lord of armies, The God of Israel, “Moab will assuredly be like Sodom, And the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah-- Ground overgrown with weeds and full of salt mines, And a permanent desolation. The remnant of My people will plunder them, And the remainder of My nation will inherit them.”
• Malachi 1:3but I have hated Esau, and I have made his mountains a desolation and given his inheritance to the jackals of the wilderness.”
• Ezekiel 6:7The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the Lord.
• Ezekiel 7:4And My eye will have no pity on you, nor will I spare you, but I will bring your ways upon you, and your abominations will be among you; then you will know that I am the Lord!’
• Ezekiel 36:11I will multiply on you people and animals, and they will increase and be fruitful; and I will populate you as you were previously, and treat you better than at the beginning. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Commentaries on Ezekiel 35:9

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9Perpetual desolations - Thou shalt have perpetual desolation for thy perpetual hatred.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9Return - Or, “be inhabited.”Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-10The ancient hatred of Edom for Israel began with their ancestors, Esau and Jacob (see Genesis 25:19–34; 27:1–46; Numbers 20:14–21; 24:18; 2 Samuel 8:13–14; 1 Kings 11:14). Because of this hatred, the Edomites took advantage of Babylon’s destruction of Jerusalem. They attacked the Israelites when they were weak and helpless. They tried to destroy the descendants of Jacob and take the lands of Israel and Judah. The Edomites enjoyed killing the Israelites…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. shall not return--to their former state (Eze 16:55); shall not be restored. The Hebrew text (Chetib) reads, "shall not be inhabited" (compare Eze 26:20; Mal 1:3, 4).Read the comment

Topics related to Ezekiel 35:9

• Edomites

In the dictionaries

• Edom
• Ezekiel, Book of
• Ezekiel
• Negeb
• Obadiah, Book of

Commentaries on Ezekiel 35

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings