Ezekiel 35:9

9 I will make you a perpetual desolation; your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

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 I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.

8 I will fill its mountains with the slain; those slain by the sword will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines.

9 I will make you a perpetual desolation; your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

10 "Because you said: These two nations and two lands will be mine, and we will possess them-though the Lord was there-

11 therefore, as I live"-the declaration of the Lord God -"I will treat [you] according to the anger and jealousy you showed in your hatred of them. I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.