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I will demolish your cities
    and make you desolate.
Then you will know that I am the Lord.

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I will turn your towns into ruins(A) and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the Lord.(B)

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I will make you desolate forever. Your cities will never be rebuilt. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

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I will make you desolate forever;(A) your towns will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.(B)

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but I rejected his brother, Esau, and devastated his hill country. I turned Esau’s inheritance into a desert for jackals.”

Esau’s descendants in Edom may say, “We have been shattered, but we will rebuild the ruins.”

But the Lord of Heaven’s Armies replies, “They may try to rebuild, but I will demolish them again. Their country will be known as ‘The Land of Wickedness,’ and their people will be called ‘The People with Whom the Lord Is Forever Angry.’

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but Esau I have hated,(A) and I have turned his hill country into a wasteland(B) and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.(C)

Edom(D) may say, “Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild(E) the ruins.”

But this is what the Lord Almighty says: “They may build, but I will demolish.(F) They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath of the Lord.(G)

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19 But Egypt will become a wasteland
    and Edom will become a wilderness,
because they attacked the people of Judah
    and killed innocent people in their land.

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19 But Egypt(A) will be desolate,
    Edom(B) a desert waste,
because of violence(C) done to the people of Judah,
    in whose land they shed innocent blood.

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12 Then you will know that I, the Lord, have heard every contemptuous word you spoke against the mountains of Israel. For you said, ‘They are desolate; they have been given to us as food to eat!’

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12 Then you will know that I the Lord have heard all the contemptible things you have said against the mountains of Israel. You said, “They have been laid waste and have been given over to us to devour.(A)

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Wherever you live there will be desolation, and I will destroy your pagan shrines. Your altars will be demolished, your idols will be smashed, your places of worship will be torn down, and all the religious objects you have made will be destroyed. The place will be littered with corpses, and you will know that I alone am the Lord.

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Wherever you live,(A) the towns will be laid waste and the high places(B) demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and devastated, your idols(C) smashed and ruined, your incense altars(D) broken down, and what you have made wiped out.(E) Your people will fall slain(F) among you, and you will know that I am the Lord.(G)

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And once again I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will chase after you.[a] I have planned this in order to display my glory through Pharaoh and his whole army. After this the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord!” So the Israelites camped there as they were told.

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Footnotes

  1. 14:4 Hebrew after them.

And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart,(A) and he will pursue them.(B) But I will gain glory(C) for myself through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord.”(D) So the Israelites did this.

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14 If you don’t, I will send more plagues on you[a] and your officials and your people. Then you will know that there is no one like me in all the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. 9:14 Hebrew on your heart.

14 or this time I will send the full force of my plagues against you and against your officials and your people, so you may know(A) that there is no one like(B) me in all the earth.

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