Ezekiel 35:9

9 {An everlasting desolation} I will make you, and your cities will not return, and you will know that I [am] Yahweh.

Ezekiel 35:9 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 35:9

I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall
not return
To their former dignity and glory; should not be built and inhabited again, but lie waste for ever: this agrees with what is prophesied of Edom, ( Malachi 1:4 ) and will be true of Rome or Babylon when destroyed; it will never rise more, but be like a millstone in the midst of the sea, ( Revelation 18:21 ) : and ye shall know that I am the Lord; (See Gill on Ezekiel 35:4).

Ezekiel 35:9 In-Context

7 And I will make the mountain of Seir into [a] desolation and ruin, and I will cut off from it [both] [he who is] crossing over and [he who is] returning.

8 And I will fill its mountains [with] its slain; your hills and your valleys and all of your watercourses, the slain by [the] sword will fall in them.

9 {An everlasting desolation} I will make you, and your cities will not return, and you will know that I [am] Yahweh.

10 [I do this] because of your saying, 'The two nations and the two lands, they will be {mine}, and we will take possession of it,' and [yet] Yahweh was there.

11 Therefore, {as I live}," {declares} the Lord Yahweh, "so I will deal [with you] according to your anger and according to your jealousy that you did, because of your hatred against them, and I will make myself known among them when I judge you.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "of eternity/endless ages"