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Your citiesעָרֶיךָI will makeאָשִׂיםa ruin,חָרְבָּהand youוְאַתָּהwill becomeתִהְיֶהa desolation,שְׁמָמָהand you will knowוְיָדַעְתָּthatכִּיI amאֲנִיYHWH.יְהוָה
Ezekiel 35:4
Study it in the app“Your cities I will make a ruin, and you will become a desolation, and you will know that I am YHWH.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Ezekiel 35:4, word by word
- Your citiesעָרֶיare
city
A settled place protected by a wall, with a gate and houses.
Where else “are” appears- I will makeאָשִׂיםasim
make
To turn something into another: "I will turn him into a nation".
Where else “asim” appears- a ruinחָרְבָּהcharba
ruin, desolate place
A ruin, a destroyed and deserted place.
Where else “charba” appears- will becomeתִהְיֶהtihye
become
To turn into something new, or fall upon someone.
Where else “tihye” appears- a desolationשְׁמָמָהshemama
desolation
Desolation: a land left empty and uncultivated; also horror.
Where else “shemama” appears- and you will knowיָדַעְתָּyadata
acknowledge
To acknowledge YHWH: admit that he is God.
Where else “yadata” appears- YHWHיְהוָהyehva
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appears
The context
3and say to it, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: Look, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and a horror.
4 · This verse (above)
5Because you had an eternal enmity and poured out the sons of Israel into the hands of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of the iniquity of the end,