Ezekiel 12:20

Translations

Modern

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

Traditional

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.

Literal

And the cities that were inhabited will be dried up, and the land will become a desolation; and you will know that I am YHWH!’”

Latin

Et civitates quæ nunc habitantur, desolatæ erunt, terraque deserta, et scietis quia ego Dominus.

Original

Hebrew

English

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

Notes

Ezekiel 12:17–20

Ezekiel trembled and shook while he ate and drank. This was a sign act, a symbolic action that showed God’s message.

His shaking showed the fear and anxiety of the people living in Jerusalem and Judah. They would see that destruction was coming and that they could not escape it.

Later, the exiles would hear that their homeland had been destroyed. Then they would understand something important. They were not rejected by God. Instead, they were the ones who had escaped his complete judgment (see Jeremiah 24:1–8).

Theme notes and profiles

Prophetic Sign Acts

Events

Prophecies of Ezekielc. 593 BC

Related verses

Jeremiah 4:7
A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.
Isaiah 7:23–24
And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.
Isaiah 3:26
And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
Jeremiah 25:9
…behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.
Isaiah 24:3
The earth will be utterly laid waste and thoroughly plundered. For the LORD has spoken this word.
Jeremiah 24:8–10
But like the bad figs, so bad they cannot be eaten,’ says the LORD, ‘so will I deal with Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem—those remaining in this land and those living in the land of Egypt.
Jeremiah 12:10–12
Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.
Jeremiah 19:11
…and you are to proclaim to them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter this nation and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.
Ezekiel 15:8
Thus I will make the land desolate, because they have acted unfaithfully,’ declares the Lord GOD.”
Daniel 9:17
So now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of Your servant. For Your sake, O Lord, cause Your face to shine upon Your desolate sanctuary.
Jeremiah 16:9
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.
Ezekiel 15:6
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give up the people of Jerusalem.

Glossary

Ezekiel, Book of

Topics

Instruction by Object Lessons: Eating and Drinking Sparingly Symbols and Similitudes: Eating Bread with Alertness Wicked (People): Temporal Punishment of

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