Ezekiel 35:4
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New International Version (©2011)
I will turn your towns into ruins and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

New Living Translation (©2007)
I will demolish your cities and make you desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

English Standard Version (©2001)
I will lay your cities waste, and you shall become a desolation, and you shall know that I am the LORD.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"I will lay waste your cities And you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am Yahweh."

International Standard Version (©2012)
I'm going to turn your cities into ghost towns, and you will become a ruin. Then you will learn that I am the LORD.

NET Bible (©2006)
I will lay waste your cities; and you will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD!

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a wasteland. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate, and you shall know that I am the LORD.

American King James Version
I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate, and you shall know that I am the LORD.

American Standard Version
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will destroy thy cities, and thou shalt be desolate: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

Darby Bible Translation
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be a desolation: and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.

English Revised Version
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

Webster's Bible Translation
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

World English Bible
I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

Young's Literal Translation
Thy cities a waste I make, and thou art a desolation, And thou hast known that I am Jehovah.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

35:1-9 All who have God against them, have the word of God against them. Those that have a constant hatred to God and his people, as the carnal mind has, can only expect to be made desolate for ever.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 4. - They shall know that I am Jehovah. By this expressive formula Ezekiel intimates the moral effect which should be produced upon the nations of the earth, whether by beholding or by experiencing the Divine judgments (Ezekiel 6:7, 13; Ezekiel 7:4, 9; Ezekiel 11:10, 12; Ezekiel 13:9, 14, 21, 23; Ezekiel 14:8; Ezekiel 15:7, et passim; cf. Exodus 6:7; Exodus 7:50 17; 29:46; 31:13; all of which passages belong to Wellhausen's grundschrift, which it is supposed had no existence in the time of Ezekiel).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I will lay thy cities waste,.... Such as Dedan, Teman, Bozrah, and other cities of Idumea mentioned in Scripture; and figuratively may design all within the jurisdiction of Rome, the several cities of the antichristian states, called "the cities of the nations"; which will fall at the pouring out of the vials, Revelation 16:19,

and thou shalt be desolate; thoroughly and entirely, and remain so:

and thou shalt know that I am the Lord; that has done all this; that the hand of God was in it; and that this is a punishment inflicted by him, for their sins after mentioned; but not that they should know the Lord spiritually and savingly, and so as to yield obedience to him, and own and acknowledge him to be their God; though this may be the case of a remnant among them; see Revelation 11:13.

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Prophecy against Mount Seir
…3And say to it, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against you, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you most desolate. 4I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate, and you shall know that I am the LORD. 5Because you have had a perpetual hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end: …

2 Chronicles 18:16 Then Micaiah answered, "I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd, and the LORD said, 'These people have no master. Let each one go home in peace.'"
Ezekiel 6:6 Wherever you live, the towns will be laid waste and the high places demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and devastated, your idols smashed and ruined, your incense altars broken down, and what you have made wiped out.
Ezekiel 35:9 I will make you desolate forever; your towns will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 35:15 Because you rejoiced when the inheritance of Israel became desolate, that is how I will treat you. You will be desolate, Mount Seir, you and all of Edom. Then they will know that I am the LORD.'"
Malachi 1:3 but Esau I have hated, and I have turned his hill country into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals."
Malachi 1:4 Edom may say, "Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild the ruins." But this is what the LORD Almighty says: "They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath of the LORD.