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Ezekiel 12

Ezek. 12:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And the cities
`iyr (Hebrew #5892)
or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; from 5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
KJV usage: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Pronounce: eer
Origin: or (in the plural) par {awr}
that are inhabited
yashab (Hebrew #3427)
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
KJV usage: (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, X fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, X marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(- tle), (down-)sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.
Pronounce: yaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
shall be laid waste
charab (Hebrew #2717)
a primitive root; to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill
KJV usage: decay, (be) desolate, destroy(-er), (be) dry (up), slay, X surely, (lay, lie, make) waste.
Pronounce: khaw-rab'
Origin: or chareb {khaw-rabe'}
, and the land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
shall be desolate
shmamah (Hebrew #8077)
feminine of 8076; devastation; figuratively, astonishment
KJV usage: (laid, X most) desolate(- ion), waste.
Pronounce: shem-aw-maw'
Origin: or shimamah {shee-mam-aw'}
; and ye shall know
yada` (Hebrew #3045)
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow)
KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.
Pronounce: yaw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
that I am the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
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Cross References

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Ezek. 15:6,8• 6Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: As the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
 8And I will make the land a desolation, because they have wrought unfaithfulness, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 15:6,8)
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Isa. 3:26• 26and her gates shall lament and mourn; and, stripped, she shall sit upon the ground. (Isa. 3:26)
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Isa. 7:23‑24• 23And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver pieces, shall become briars and thorns:
 24with arrows and with the bow shall they come thither, for the whole land shall become briars and thorns. (Isa. 7:23‑24)
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Isa. 24:3,12• 3The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled; for Jehovah hath spoken this word.
 12desolation remaineth in the city, and the gate is smitten,--a ruin. (Isa. 24:3,12)
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Isa. 64:10‑11• 10Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
 11Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt up with fire, and all our precious things are laid waste. (Isa. 64:10‑11)
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Jer. 4:7,23‑29• 7The lion is come up from his thicket, the destroyer of the nations is on his way; he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate; thy cities shall be laid waste, without inhabitant.
 23I beheld the earth, and lo, it was waste and empty; and the heavens, and they had no light.
 24I beheld the mountains, and lo, they trembled, and all the hills shook violently.
 25I beheld, and lo, man was not, and all the fowl of the heavens were fled.
 26I beheld, and lo, the fruitful land was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down, before Jehovah, before his fierce anger.
 27For thus saith Jehovah: The whole land shall be a desolation; but I will not make a full end.
 28For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back therefrom.
 29At the noise of the horsemen and bowmen, every city fleeth; they go into the thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city is forsaken and no man dwelleth therein. (Jer. 4:7,23‑29)
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Jer. 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; desolate, it mourneth unto me: the whole land is made desolate, for no man layeth it to heart.
 12Spoilers are come upon all heights in the wilderness; for the sword of Jehovah devoureth from one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh hath peace. (Jer. 12:10‑12)
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Jer. 16:9• 9For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: 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 joy, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride. (Jer. 16:9)
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Jer. 19:11• 11and shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again. And they shall bury in Topheth, till there be no place to bury. (Jer. 19:11)
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Jer. 24:8‑10• 8And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten for badness, surely, thus saith Jehovah: So will I make Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt.
 9And I will give them over to be driven hither and thither unto all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them;
 10and I will send among them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, until they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers. (Jer. 24:8‑10)
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Jer. 25:9• 9behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and I will send to Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual wastes. (Jer. 25:9)
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Jer. 34:22• 22Behold, I command, saith Jehovah, and I will cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant. (Jer. 34:22)
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Lam. 5:18• 18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it. (Lam. 5:18)
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Dan. 9:17• 17And now, our God, hearken to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake. (Dan. 9:17)

J. N. Darby Translation

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