Ezekiel 35:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I will make your towns unpeopled and you will be a waste; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

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  • Ezek 35:9 : 9 I will make you waste for ever, and your towns will be unpeopled: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
  • Mal 1:3-4 : 3 And Esau was hated, and I sent destruction on his mountains, and gave his heritage to the beasts of the waste land. 4 Though Edom says, We are crushed down but we will come back, building up the waste places; this is what the Lord of armies has said: They may put up buildings, but I will have them pulled down; and they will be named The land of evil-doing, and The people against whom the Lord keeps his wrath for ever.
  • Ezek 35:12 : 12 And you will see that I the Lord have had knowledge of all the bitter things which you have said against the mountains of Israel, saying, They have been made waste, they are given to us to take for our heritage.
  • Joel 3:19 : 19 Masses on masses in the valley of decision! for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
  • Exod 9:14 : 14 For this time I will send all my punishments on yourself and on your servants and on your people; so that you may see that there is no other like me in all the earth.
  • Exod 14:4 : 4 And I will make Pharaoh's heart hard, and he will come after them and I will be honoured over Pharaoh and all his army, so that the Egyptians may see that I am the Lord. And they did so.
  • Ezek 6:6-7 : 6 In all your living-places the towns will become broken walls, and the high places made waste; so that your altars may be broken down and made waste, and your images broken and ended, and so that your sun-images may be cut down and your works rubbed out. 7 And the dead will be falling down among you, and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 35:7-12
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    90%

    7 And I will make Mount Seir a cause for wonder and a waste, cutting off from it all comings and goings.

    8 I will make his mountains full of those who have been put to death; in your valleys and in all your water-streams men will be falling by the sword.

    9 I will make you waste for ever, and your towns will be unpeopled: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

    10 Because you have said, The two nations and the two countries are to be mine, and we will take them for our heritage; though the Lord was there:

    11 For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, I will do to you as you have done in your wrath and in your envy, which you have made clear in your hate for them; and I will make clear to you who I am when you are judged by me.

    12 And you will see that I the Lord have had knowledge of all the bitter things which you have said against the mountains of Israel, saying, They have been made waste, they are given to us to take for our heritage.

  • Ezek 12:20
    86%

    20 And the peopled towns will be made waste, and the land will become a wonder; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

  • Ezek 35:14-15
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    83%

    14 This is what the Lord has said: Because you were glad over my land when it was a waste, so will I do to you:

    15 You will become a waste, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

  • Ezek 33:28-29
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    83%

    28 And I will make the land a waste and a cause of wonder, and the pride of her strength will come to an end; and the mountains of Israel will be made waste so that no one will go through.

    29 Then they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I have made the land a waste and a cause of wonder, because of all the disgusting things which they have done,

  • Ezek 25:7
    82%

    7 For this cause my hand has been stretched out against you, and I will give up your goods to be taken by the nations; I will have you cut off from the peoples and will put an end to you among the countries: I will give you up to destruction; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

  • Ezek 6:13-14
    2 verses
    82%

    13 And you will be certain that I am the Lord, when their dead men are stretched among their images round about their altars on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every branching tree, and under every thick oak-tree, the places where they made sweet smells to all their images.

    14 And my hand will be stretched out against them, making the land waste and unpeopled, from the waste land to Riblah, through all their living-places: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

  • Ezek 35:3
    81%

    3 And say to it, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am against you, O Mount Seir, and my hand will be stretched out against you, and I will make you a waste and a cause for wonder.

  • Ezek 6:6-7
    2 verses
    79%

    6 In all your living-places the towns will become broken walls, and the high places made waste; so that your altars may be broken down and made waste, and your images broken and ended, and so that your sun-images may be cut down and your works rubbed out.

    7 And the dead will be falling down among you, and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

  • Ezek 5:14
    79%

    14 And I will make you a waste and a name of shame among the nations round about you, in the eyes of everyone who goes by.

  • Lev 26:31-33
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    79%

    31 And I will make your towns waste and send destruction on your holy places; I will take no pleasure in the smell of your sweet perfumes;

    32 And I will make your land a waste, a wonder to your haters living in it.

    33 And I will send you out in all directions among the nations, and my sword will be uncovered against you, and your land will be without any living thing, and your towns will be made waste.

  • Ezek 15:8
    79%

    8 And I will make the land a waste because they have done evil, says the Lord.

  • Ezek 30:7
    78%

    7 And she will be made waste among the countries which have been made waste, and her towns will be among the towns which are unpeopled.

  • Ezek 36:4
    77%

    4 For this reason, you mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord; this is what the Lord has said to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, to the unpeopled wastes and to the towns where no one is living, from which the goods have been taken and which have been put to shame by the rest of the nations who are round about:

  • Ezek 7:4
    77%

    4 My eye will not have mercy on you, and I will have no pity: but I will send the punishment of your ways on you, and your disgusting works will be among you: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

  • Ezek 22:16
    77%

    16 And you will be made low before the eyes of the nations; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord.

  • Ezek 32:15
    77%

    15 When I make Egypt an unpeopled waste, cutting off from the land all the things in it; when I send punishment on all those living in it, then it will be clear to them that I am the Lord.

  • Ezek 11:10
    76%

    10 You will come to your death by the sword; and I will be your judge in the land of Israel; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

  • Ezek 25:17
    76%

    17 And I will take great payment from them with acts of wrath; and they will be certain that I am the Lord when I send my punishment on them.

  • Ezek 36:36
    76%

    36 Then the rest of the nations round about you will be certain that I the Lord am the builder of the places which were pulled down and the planter of that which was waste: I the Lord have said it, and I will do it.

  • Ezek 28:23
    76%

    23 And I will send on her disease and blood in her streets; and the wounded will be falling in the middle of her, and the sword will be against her on every side; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

  • Mic 5:14
    75%

    14 And my punishment will be effected on the nations with such burning wrath as they have not had word of.

  • Ezek 13:14
    75%

    14 So I will let the wall, which you were covering with whitewash, be broken down; I will have it levelled to the earth so that its base is uncovered: it will come down, and destruction will come on you with it; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord.

  • Ezek 6:10
    75%

    10 And they will be certain that I am the Lord: not for nothing did I say that I would do this evil to them.

  • Ezek 7:27
    75%

    27 The king will give himself up to sorrow, and the ruler will be clothed with wonder, and the hands of the people of the land will be troubled: I will give them punishment for their ways, judging them as it is right for them to be judged; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

  • Ezek 26:6
    75%

    6 And her daughters in the open country will be put to the sword: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

  • Ezek 36:13
    75%

    13 This is what the Lord has said: Because they say to you, You, O land, are the destruction of men, causing loss of children to your nation;

  • Ezek 21:31
    75%

    31 And I will let loose my burning passion on you, breathing out on you the fire of my wrath: and I will give you up into the hands of men like beasts, trained to destruction.

  • Ezek 6:3-4
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    75%

    3 You mountains of Israel, give ear to the words of the Lord: this is what the Lord has said to the mountains and the hills, to the waterways and the valleys: See, I, even I, am sending on you a sword for the destruction of your high places.

    4 And your altars will be made waste, and your sun-images will be broken: and I will have your dead men placed before your images.

  • Ezek 26:19
    74%

    19 For this is what the Lord has said: I will make you a waste town, like the towns which are unpeopled; when I make the deep come upon you, covering you with great waters.

  • Ezek 7:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8 Now, in a little time, I will let loose my passion on you, and give full effect to my wrath against you, judging you for your ways, and sending punishment on you for all your disgusting works.

    9 My eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity: I will send on you the punishment of your ways, and your disgusting works will be among you; and you will see that I am the Lord who gives punishment.

  • Ezek 36:33-34
    2 verses
    74%

    33 This is what the Lord has said: In the day when I make you clean from all your evil-doings I will let the towns be peopled and there will be building on the waste places.

    34 And the land which was waste will be farmed, in place of being a waste in the eyes of everyone who went by.

  • Ezek 32:9
    74%

    9 And the hearts of numbers of peoples will be troubled, when I send your prisoners among the nations, into a country which is strange to you.

  • Ezek 5:8
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    8 For this cause the Lord has said: See, I, even I, am against you; and I will be judging among you before the eyes of the nations.

  • Mic 5:11
    74%

    11 I will put an end to your use of secret arts, and you will have no more readers of signs:

  • Jer 45:4
    74%

    4 This is what you are to say to him: The Lord has said, Truly, the building which I put up will be broken down, and that which was planted by me will be uprooted, and this through all the land;

  • Jer 4:27
    74%

    27 For this is what the Lord has said: All the land will become a waste; I will make destruction complete.