20The cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.


In Context

17 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

18 Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness;

19 and tell the people of the land, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, and despoiled of all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein.

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

21 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

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?

Ezekiel 12:20 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:20And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

12:20The inhabited towns will be laid waste and the land will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD .' "

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:20And 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:20And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:20And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:20And 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:20And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:20And the cities that are inhabited are laid waste, and the land is a desolation, and ye have known that I am Jehovah.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:20And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am the LORD.