King James Version
Ezekiel 35:4 in the King James Version says “I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 35 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.”
Ezekiel 35:4 · KJV
Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate. most: Heb. desolation and desolation
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast 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: perpetual: or, hatred of old shed: Heb. poured out the children force: Heb. hands
Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“thy cities”
H5892a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
“I will lay”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“and thou shalt know”
H3045to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“that I am the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
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