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Ezekiel 12:20

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The cities that are inhabited will be laid waste, and the land will be a desolation. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.” ’ ”

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Ezekiel 12:20 in other translations

And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

Ezekiel 12:20 · American Standard Version

Ezekiel 12:20 in context

  1. 18“Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness.
  2. 19Tell the people of the land, ‘The Lord Yahweh says concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: “They will eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, and all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein.
  3. 20The cities that are inhabited will be laid waste, and the land will be a desolation. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.” ’ ”
  4. 21Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
  5. 22“Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, ‘The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?’