Ezekiel 12:20 Parallel Translations

The cities where people live will be destroyed, and the country will become a wasteland. Then they will know that I am the LORD.'"(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

ASV:

And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

BBE:

And the peopled towns will be made waste, and the land will become a wonder; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

DBY:

And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

ERV:

And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

JPS:

And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.'

WBS:

And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

WEB:

The cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

YLT:

And the cities that are inhabited are laid waste, and the land is a desolation, and ye have known that I am Jehovah.'

Ezekiel 12:20 Cross References

XREF:

Isaiah 3:26 And her gates will lament and mourn, And deserted she will sit on the ground.

Isaiah 7:23 And it will come about in that day, that every place where there used to be a thousand vines, valued at a thousand shekels of silver, will become briars and thorns.

Isaiah 7:24 People will come there with bows and arrows because all the land will be briars and thorns.

Jeremiah 4:7 "A lion has gone up from his thicket, And a destroyer of nations has set out; He has gone out from his place To make your land a waste. Your cities will be ruins Without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 25:9 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,' declares the LORD, 'and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them and make them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

Ezekiel 5:14 'Moreover, I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations which surround you, in the sight of all who pass by.

Ezekiel 36:3 therefore prophesy and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "For good reason they have made you desolate and crushed you from every side, that you would become a possession of the rest of the nations and you have been taken up in the talk and the whispering of the people."'" (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

MHC:

12:17-20 The prophet must eat and drink in care and fear, with trembling, that he might express the condition of those in Jerusalem during the siege. When ministers speak of the ruin coming upon sinners, they must speak as those that know the terrors of the Lord. Afflictions are happy ones, however grievous to flesh and blood, that improve us in the knowledge of God.

CONC:

Cities Desolate Desolation Inhabited Laid Peopled Towns Waste Wonder

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