Ezekiel 35:4
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I will destroy thy cities, and thou shalt be desolate: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

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Ezekiel 35:9 I will make thee everlasting desolations, and thy cities shall not be inhabited: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord God.

Ezekiel 6:6 In all your dwelling places. The cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be thrown down, and destroyed, and your altars shall be abolished, and shall be broken in pieces: and your idols shall be no more, and your temples shall be destroyed, and your works shall be defaced.

Joel 3:19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom a wilderness destroyed: because they have done unjustly against the children of Juda, and have shed innocent blood in their land.

Malachi 1:3,4 But have hated Esau? and I have made his mountains a wilderness, and given his inheritance to the dragons of the desert. . . .

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Ezekiel 35:9,12 I will make thee everlasting desolations, and thy cities shall not be inhabited: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord God. . . .

Ezekiel 6:7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you: and you shall know that I am the Lord.

Exodus 9:14 For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thy heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayst know that there is none like me in all the earth.

Exodus 14:4 And I shall harden his heart and he will pursue you: and I shall be glorified in Pharao, and in all his army: and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord. And they did so.

Context
A Prophecy Against Mount Seir
3Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against thee, mount Seir, and I will stretch forth my hand upon thee, and I will make thee desolate and waste. 4I will destroy thy cities, and thou shalt be desolate: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.5Because thou hast been an everlasting enemy, and hast shut up the children of Israel in the hands of the sword in the time of their affliction, in the time of their last iniquity.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 18:16
Then he said: I saw all Israel scattered in the mountains, like sheep without a shepherd: and the Lord said: These have no masters: let every man return to his own house in peace.

Ezekiel 6:6
In all your dwelling places. The cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be thrown down, and destroyed, and your altars shall be abolished, and shall be broken in pieces: and your idols shall be no more, and your temples shall be destroyed, and your works shall be defaced.

Ezekiel 35:9
I will make thee everlasting desolations, and thy cities shall not be inhabited: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord God.

Ezekiel 35:15
As thou hast rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was laid waste, so will I do to thee: thou shalt be laid waste, O mount Seir, and all Idumea: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Malachi 1:3
But have hated Esau? and I have made his mountains a wilderness, and given his inheritance to the dragons of the desert.

Malachi 1:4
But if Edom shall say: We are destroyed, but we will return and build up what hath been destroyed: thus saith the Lord of hosts: They shall build up, and I will throw down: and they shall be called the borders of wickedness, and the people with whom the Lord is angry for ever.

Lexicon
I will turn your cities
עָרֶ֙יךָ֙ (‘ā·re·ḵā)
Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5892: Excitement

into
אָשִׂ֔ים (’ā·śîm)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

ruins,
חָרְבָּ֣ה (ḥā·rə·bāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2723: Waste, desolation, ruin

and you
וְאַתָּ֖ה (wə·’at·tāh)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

will become
תִֽהְיֶ֑ה (ṯih·yeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

a desolation.
שְׁמָמָ֣ה (šə·mā·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8077: Devastation, astonishment

Then you will know
וְיָדַעְתָּ֖ (wə·yā·ḏa‘·tā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3045: To know

that
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

I
אֲנִ֥י (’ă·nî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 589: I

am the LORD.
יְהוָֽה׃ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel


Additional Translations
I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate, and you shall know that I am the LORD.

I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.

And I will cause desolation in thy cities, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be a desolation: and thou shalt know that I [am] Jehovah.

I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

Thy cities a waste I make, and thou art a desolation, And thou hast known that I am Jehovah.
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