Ezekiel 35:4

4 I will turn your towns into ruins and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 35:4 in Other Translations

4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

4 I will lay your cities waste, and you shall become a desolation, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

4 I will demolish your cities and make you desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD .

4 I'll reduce your towns to piles of rocks. There'll be nothing left of you. Then you'll realize that I am God.

4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.

4 I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a wasteland. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

4 I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

4 I will destroy your towns. Your land will become empty. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 35:4 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 35:4

I will lay thy cities waste
Such as Dedan, Teman, Bozrah, and other cities of Idumea mentioned in Scripture; and figuratively may design all within the jurisdiction of Rome, the several cities of the antichristian states, called "the cities of the nations"; which will fall at the pouring out of the vials, ( Revelation 16:19 ) : and thou shalt be desolate;
thoroughly and entirely, and remain so: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord;
that has done all this; that the hand of God was in it; and that this is a punishment inflicted by him, for their sins after mentioned; but not that they should know the Lord spiritually and savingly, and so as to yield obedience to him, and own and acknowledge him to be their God; though this may be the case of a remnant among them; see ( Revelation 11:13 ) ( 18:4 ) .

Ezekiel 35:4 In-Context

2 “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir; prophesy against it

3 and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you and make you a desolate waste.

4 I will turn your towns into ruins and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

5 “ ‘Because you harbored an ancient hostility and delivered the Israelites over to the sword at the time of their calamity, the time their punishment reached its climax,

6 therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.

Cross References

• 1. Jeremiah 44:2
• 2. ver 9; S Jeremiah 49:10