I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
- KJV I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
- NKJV I will make you perpetually desolate, and your cities shall be uninhabited; then you shall know that I am the Lord.
- NASB I will make you a permanent desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
- NLT I will make you desolate forever. Your cities will never be rebuilt. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
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Quick answer
God will make Edom a perpetual desolation with uninhabited cities, and they will know He is the LORD. The judgment is lasting and instructive.
Overview
'Perpetual desolation' answers Edom's 'perpetual hostility' (v.5)—the lasting hatred meets a lasting ruin. Empty cities confirm the finality of the verdict. Once more the goal is recognition of God: 'you shall know that I am Yahweh.' Even in judging His enemies, God acts to make His name known throughout the earth.
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- Ezek 25:13therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.
- Mal 1:3–4but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
- Ezek 35:4I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
- Ezek 6:7The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.
- Ezek 36:11I will fill you with people and animals, and they will multiply and be fruitful. I will make you as inhabited as you once were, and I will make you prosper more than before. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
- Jer 49:13For by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”
- Jer 49:17–18“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
- Zeph 2:9Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”
- Ezek 7:4I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’
- Ezek 7:9I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who strikes the blow.
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