Ezekiel 12:20
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New International Version (©2011)
The inhabited towns will be laid waste and the land will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.'"

New Living Translation (©2007)
The cities will be destroyed and the farmland made desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.'"

English Standard Version (©2001)
And the inhabited cities shall be laid waste, and the land shall become a desolation; and you shall know that I am the LORD.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"The inhabited cities will be laid waste and the land will be a desolation. So you will know that I am the LORD."'"

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The inhabited cities will be destroyed, and the land will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am Yahweh."

International Standard Version (©2012)
The towns that are inhabited will lie in ruins, because the land will be devastated. Then they'll learn that I am the LORD."'"

NET Bible (©2006)
The inhabited towns will be left in ruins and the land will be devastated. Then you will know that I am the LORD.'"

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The cities where people live will be destroyed, and the country will become a wasteland. Then they will know that I am the LORD.'"

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am the LORD.

American King James Version
And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am the LORD.

American Standard Version
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the cities that are now inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate: and you shall know that I am the Lord.

Darby Bible Translation
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.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

World English Bible
The cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

Young's Literal Translation
And the cities that are inhabited are laid waste, and the land is a desolation, and ye have known that I am Jehovah.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

12:17-20 The prophet must eat and drink in care and fear, with trembling, that he might express the condition of those in Jerusalem during the siege. When ministers speak of the ruin coming upon sinners, they must speak as those that know the terrors of the Lord. Afflictions are happy ones, however grievous to flesh and blood, that improve us in the knowledge of God.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste,.... Not only the city of Jerusalem, but the other cities of Judea; as they were by the Chaldeans, which were then full of inhabitants:

and the land shall be desolate; the whole land of Judea be destitute of men and cattle, and lie uncultivated, and become barren and unfruitful:

and ye shall know that I am the Lord; who were then captives in Babylon, as well as those who should be dispersed among the nations would; see Ezekiel 12:15.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

20. the cities—left in Judea after the destruction of Jerusalem.

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Signs of the Coming Captivity
…18Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with carefulness; 19And say to the people of the land, Thus said the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein. 20And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am the LORD.

Isaiah 3:26 The gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
Isaiah 7:23 In that day, in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, there will be only briers and thorns.
Isaiah 7:24 Hunters will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.
Jeremiah 4:7 A lion has come out of his lair; a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his place to lay waste your land. Your towns will lie in ruins without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 25:9 I will summon all the peoples of the north and my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon," declares the LORD, "and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy them and make them an object of horror and scorn, and an everlasting ruin.
Ezekiel 5:14 "I will make you a ruin and a reproach among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.
Ezekiel 12:15 "They will know that I am the LORD, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them through the countries.
Ezekiel 12:21 The word of the LORD came to me:
Ezekiel 36:3 Therefore prophesy and say, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because they ravaged and crushed you from every side so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations and the object of people's malicious talk and slander,