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EternalעוֹלָםdevastationsשִׁמְמוֹתI will make you,אֶתֶּנְךָand your citiesוְעָרֶיךָwill notלֹאbe inhabited;תָשֹׁבְנָהand you will knowוִידַעְתֶּםthatכִּיI amאֲנִיYHWH.יְהוָה
Ezekiel 35:9
Study it in the app“Eternal devastations I will make you, and your cities will not be inhabited; and you will know that I am YHWH.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Ezekiel 35:9, word by word
- Eternalעוֹלָםolam
forever
Time without end, beyond what a lifetime can see.
Where else “olam” appears- devastationsשִׁמְמוֹתshimmot
desolation
Desolation: a land left empty and uncultivated; also horror.
Where else “shimmot” appears- I will make youאֶתֶּנְeten
make
To make someone something: "I have made you a father".
Where else “eten” appears- and your citiesעָרֶיare
city
A settled place protected by a wall, with a gate and houses.
Where else “are” appears- be inhabitedתָשֹׁבְנָהtashovna
return
To go back to a place.
Where else “tashovna” appears- and you will knowידַעְתֶּםydatem
acknowledge
To acknowledge YHWH: admit that he is God.
Where else “ydatem” 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
8And I will fill its mountains with its slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses those slain by the sword will fall in them.
9 · This verse (above)
10Because you said, “The two nations and the two lands will be mine, and we will possess them,” though YHWH was there,