I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not [a]return, and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

10 Because thou hast said, [b]These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess them (seeing the Lord was [c]there)

11 Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will even do according to thy [d]wrath, and according to thine indignation, which thou hast used in thine hatred against them: and I will make myself known among [e]them, when I have judged thee.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 35:9 To wit, to their former estate.
  2. Ezekiel 35:10 Meaning, Israel and Judah.
  3. Ezekiel 35:10 And so by fighting against God’s people, they should go about to put him out of his own possession.
  4. Ezekiel 35:11 As thou hast done cruelly, so shalt thou be cruelly handled.
  5. Ezekiel 35:11 Showing that when God punisheth the enemies, the godly ought to consider that he hath a care over them, and so praise his Name: and also that the wicked rage as though there were no God, till they feel his hand to their destruction.

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