Ezekiel 35:9

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I will turn you into a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

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  • Ezek 6:7 : 7 The slain will fall among you and then you will know that I am the LORD.
  • Ezek 25:13 : 13 So this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will stretch out my hand against Edom, and I will kill the people and animals within her, and I will make her desolate; from Teman to Dedan they will die by the sword.
  • Ezek 35:4 : 4 I will lay waste your cities; and you will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD!
  • Ezek 36:11 : 11 I will increase the number of people and animals on you; they will increase and be fruitful. I will cause you to be inhabited as in ancient times, and will do more good for you than at the beginning of your history. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
  • Zeph 2:9 : 9 Therefore, as surely as I live,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel,“be certain that Moab will become like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah. They will be overrun by weeds, filled with salt pits, and permanently desolate. Those of my people who are left will plunder their belongings; those who are left in Judah will take possession of their land.”
  • Mal 1:3-4 : 3 and rejected Esau. I turned Esau’s mountains into a deserted wasteland and gave his territory to the wild jackals.” 4 Edom says,“Though we are devastated, we will once again build the ruined places.” So the LORD of Heaven’s Armies responds,“They indeed may build, but I will overthrow. They will be known as the land of evil, the people with whom the LORD is permanently displeased.
  • Ezek 7:4 : 4 My eye will not pity you; I will not spare you. For I will hold you responsible for your behavior, and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. Then you will know that I am the LORD!
  • Ezek 7:9 : 9 My eye will not pity you; I will not spare you. For your behavior I will hold you accountable, and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who is striking you.
  • Jer 49:13 : 13 For I solemnly swear,” says the LORD,“that Bozrah will become a pile of ruins. It will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example to be used in curses. All the towns around it will lie in ruins forever.”
  • Jer 49:17-18 : 17 “Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by it will be filled with horror; they will hiss out their scorn because of all the disasters that have happened to it. 18 Edom will be destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns that were around them. No one will live there. No human being will settle in it,” says the LORD.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 35:4
    90%

    4I will lay waste your cities; and you will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD!

  • Ezek 12:20
    85%

    20The inhabited towns will be left in ruins and the land will be devastated. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

  • Lev 26:31-33
    3 verses
    81%

    31I will lay your cities waste and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas.

    32I myself will make the land desolate and your enemies who live in it will be appalled.

    33I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

  • Ezek 35:10
    81%

    10“‘You said,“These two nations, these two lands will be mine, and we will possess them,”– although the LORD was there–

  • Ezek 5:14-15
    2 verses
    80%

    14“I will make you desolate and an object of scorn among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by.

    15You will be an object of scorn and taunting, a prime example of destruction among the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger and raging fury. I, the LORD, have spoken!

  • Ezek 25:7
    80%

    7take note, I have stretched out my hand against you, and I will hand you over as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and make you perish from the lands. I will destroy you; then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

  • Ezek 35:14-15
    2 verses
    80%

    14This is what the Sovereign LORD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will turn you into a desolation.

    15As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so will I deal with you– you will be desolate, Mount Seir, and all of Edom– all of it! Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”

  • Ezek 6:14
    80%

    14I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land a desolate waste from the wilderness to Riblah, in all the places where they live. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

  • Ezek 33:28-29
    2 verses
    79%

    28I will turn the land into a desolate ruin; her confident pride will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will be so desolate no one will pass through them.

    29Then they will know that I am the LORD when I turn the land into a desolate ruin because of all the abominable deeds they have committed.’

  • Ezek 30:7
    79%

    7They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will be among ruined cities.

  • Ezek 15:8
    79%

    8I will make the land desolate because they have acted unfaithfully, declares the Sovereign LORD.”

  • Ezek 35:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    7I will turn Mount Seir into a desolate ruin; I will cut off from it the one who passes through or returns.

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

  • Jer 9:11
    78%

    11The LORD said,“I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins. Jackals will make their home there. I will destroy the towns of Judah so that no one will be able to live in them.”

  • Ezek 6:6-7
    2 verses
    78%

    6In all your dwellings, the cities will be laid waste and the high places ruined so that your altars will be laid waste and ruined, your idols will be shattered and demolished, your incense altars will be broken down, and your works wiped out.

    7The slain will fall among you and then you will know that I am the LORD.

  • Ezek 26:21
    77%

    21I will bring terrors on you, and you will be no more! Though you are sought after, you will never be found again, declares the Sovereign LORD.”

  • Zeph 3:6
    77%

    6The Lord’s Judgment will Purify“I destroyed nations; their walled cities are in ruins. I turned their streets into ruins; no one passes through them. Their cities are desolate; no one lives there.

  • Jer 51:26
    77%

    26No one will use any of your stones as a cornerstone. No one will use any of them in the foundation of his house. For you will lie desolate forever,” says the LORD.

  • Ezek 32:9
    77%

    9I will disturb many peoples, when I bring about your destruction among the nations, among countries you do not know.

  • Ezek 26:19
    77%

    19“For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: When I make you desolate like the uninhabited cities, when I bring up the deep over you and the surging waters overwhelm you,

  • Ezek 36:36
    77%

    36Then the nations which remain around you will know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt the ruins and replanted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken– and I will do it!’

  • Ezek 28:19
    77%

    19All who know you among the peoples are shocked at you; you have become terrified and will be no more.’”

  • Jer 34:22
    76%

    22For I, the LORD, affirm that I will soon give the order and bring them back to this city. They will fight against it and capture it and burn it down. I will also make the towns of Judah desolate so that there will be no one living in them.”’”

  • Jer 19:8
    76%

    8I will make this city an object of horror, a thing to be hissed at. All who pass by it will be filled with horror and will hiss out their scorn because of all the disasters that have happened to it.

  • Ezek 11:10
    76%

    10You will die by the sword; I will judge you at the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

  • Ezek 21:31-32
    2 verses
    76%

    31I will pour out my anger on you; the fire of my fury I will blow on you. I will hand you over to brutal men, who are skilled in destruction.

    32You will become fuel for the fire– your blood will stain the middle of the land; you will no longer be remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken.’”

  • Ezek 5:9
    76%

    9I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again because of all your abominable practices.

  • Mic 5:14
    76%

    14I will uproot your images of Asherah from your midst, and destroy your idols.

  • Jer 4:27
    76%

    27All this will happen because the LORD said,“The whole land will be desolate; however, I will not completely destroy it.

  • Ezek 26:14
    76%

    14I will make you a bare rock; you will be a place where fishing nets are spread. You will never be built again, for I, the LORD, have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • Ezek 22:16
    76%

    16You will be profaned within yourself in the sight of the nations; then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

  • Jer 23:40
    76%

    40I will bring on you lasting shame and lasting disgrace which will never be forgotten!’”

  • Ezek 36:13
    76%

    13“‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because they are saying to you,“You are a devourer of men, and bereave your nation of children,”

  • Jer 17:4
    76%

    4You will lose your hold on the land which I gave to you as a permanent possession. I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you know nothing about. For you have made my anger burn like a fire that will never be put out.”

  • Mic 5:11
    75%

    11I will destroy the cities of your land, and tear down all your fortresses.

  • Ezek 35:12
    75%

    12Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard all the insults you spoke against the mountains of Israel, saying,“They are desolate, they have been given to us for food.”

  • Jer 22:6
    75%

    6“‘For the LORD says concerning the palace of the king of Judah,“This place looks like a veritable forest of Gilead to me. It is like the wooded heights of Lebanon in my eyes. But I swear that I will make it like a wilderness whose towns have all been deserted.

  • Ezek 32:15
    75%

    15When I turn the land of Egypt into desolation and the land is destitute of everything that fills it, when I strike all those who live in it, then they will know that I am the LORD.’

  • Ezek 29:9
    75%

    9The land of Egypt will become a desolate ruin. Then they will know that I am the LORD. Because he said,“The Nile is mine and I made it,”

  • Isa 17:9
    75%

    9At that time their fortified cities will be like the abandoned summits of the Amorites, which they abandoned because of the Israelites; there will be desolation.

  • Ezek 7:4
    75%

    4My eye will not pity you; I will not spare you. For I will hold you responsible for your behavior, and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. Then you will know that I am the LORD!

  • Ps 9:6
    75%

    6The enemy’s cities have been reduced to permanent ruins; you destroyed their cities; all memory of the enemies has perished.

  • Isa 25:2
    75%

    2Indeed, you have made the city into a heap of rubble, the fortified town into a heap of ruins; the fortress of foreigners is no longer a city, it will never be rebuilt.