I will make you a permanent 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.
- 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.
- 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 says the Lord Yahweh, I will stretch out my hand on Edom, and will cut off man and animal from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; even to Dedan shall they fall by the sword.
- Mal 1:3–4but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”
- Ezek 35:4I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezek 6:7The slain shall fall among you, and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezek 36:11and I will multiply on you man and animal; and they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited after your former estate, and you will do better than at your beginnings: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Jer 49:13For I have sworn by myself,” says Yahweh, “that Bozrah will become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. All its cities will be perpetual wastes.”
- Jer 49:17–18“Edom will become an astonishment. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and will hiss at all its plagues.
- Zeph 2:9Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.
- Ezek 7:4My eye will not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations will be among you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.’
- Ezek 7:9My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. I will bring on you according to your ways. Your abominations will be among you; and you will know that I, Yahweh, strike.
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