Ezekiel 35:9

9 "I will make you an everlasting ¹desolation and 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 waste and a desolation and I will cut off from it the one who passes through and returns.

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

9 "I will make you an everlasting desolation and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD .

10 "Because you have said, 'These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we will possess them,' although the LORD was there,

11 therefore as I live," declares the Lord GOD, "I will deal with you according to your anger and according to your envy which you showed because of your hatred against them; so I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.

Cross References

• 1. Jeremiah 49:13; Ezekiel 25:13