Ezekiel 12:20

WEB

²⁰The cities that are inhabited will be laid waste, and the land will be a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”’”

KJV

²⁰And the cities^[+] that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

BSB

²⁰The inhabited cities will be laid waste, and the land will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

FBV

²⁰The towns will be destroyed, and the countryside turned into a wasteland. Then you will know that I am the Lord.”

Extra References

Isaiah 7:23-24

²³It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels,^[+] will be for briers and thorns. ²⁴People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns.

Jeremiah 4:7

⁷A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations. He is on his way. He has gone out from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

Isaiah 3:26

²⁶Her gates shall lament and mourn. She shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

Jeremiah 25:9

⁹behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,” says the LORD, “and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around. I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

Jeremiah 19:11

¹¹and shall tell them, ‘The LORD of Armies says: “Even so I will break this people and this city as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that can’t be made whole again. They will bury in Topheth until there is no place to bury.

Daniel 9:17

¹⁷“Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.

Lamentations 5:18

¹⁸for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk on it.

Jeremiah 16:9

⁹For the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

Isaiah 24:12

¹²The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.

Jeremiah 12:10-12

¹⁰Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They have trodden my portion under foot. They have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. ¹¹They have made it a desolation. It mourns to me, being desolate. The whole land is made desolate, because no one cares. ¹²Destroyers have come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of the LORD devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land. No flesh has peace.