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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 vine tree 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 desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 15:6,8)
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Isa. 3:26• 26And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she, stripped , 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 were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings shall become briars and thorns.
 24With arrows and with bow shall they come thither, because 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.
 12In the city remaineth desolation, and the gate is smitten,—a ruin. (Isa. 24:3,12)
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Isa. 64:10‑11• 10Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
 11Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire; and all our pleasant 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, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
 23I beheld the earth, and lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
 24I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
 25I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
 26I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of Jehovah, and by 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 pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness,
 11They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.
 12The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of Jehovah shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have 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 in 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. (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 potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again; and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury. (Jer. 19:11)
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Jer. 24:8‑10• 8And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith Jehovah, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:
 9and I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.
 10And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till 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• 9I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and Nebuchadnezzar 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 will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations. (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 an inhabitant. (Jer. 34:22)
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Lam. 5:18• 18Because of the mount of Zion which is desolate, foxes walk about on 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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