I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall 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.
- BSB I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will 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 thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.
- Mal 1:3–4And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
- Ezek 35:4I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
- Ezek 6:7And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
- Ezek 36:11And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
- Jer 49:13For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
- Jer 49:17–18Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
- Zeph 2:9Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
- Ezek 7:4And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
- Ezek 7:9And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD that smiteth.
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