Verse 4

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 35:9 : 9 I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
  • Mal 1:3-4 : 3 but Esau I have hated. I have turned his mountains into a wasteland and given his inheritance to the wild creatures of the desert. 4 Though Edom may say, 'We have been destroyed, but we will rebuild the ruins,' this is what the LORD of Hosts says: They may rebuild, but I will tear it down. They will be called 'The Wicked Land,' and 'The people the LORD is angry with forever.'
  • Ezek 35:12 : 12 Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard all the contemptuous things you said against the mountains of Israel. You said, 'They have been laid waste and given over to us to devour.'
  • Joel 3:19 : 19 Egypt will become a desolate wasteland, and Edom a desert wilderness, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
  • Exod 9:14 : 14 For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, your officials, and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.
  • Exod 14:4 : 4 I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will chase after them. But I will use Pharaoh and his whole army to demonstrate my glory, so that the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.” The Israelites did as they were instructed.
  • Ezek 6:6-7 : 6 Wherever you dwell, your cities will become ruins, and your high places will be desolate. Your altars will be demolished and abandoned, your idols broken and destroyed, your incense altars cut down, and your works wiped out. 7 The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.