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I will lay waste your cities,
and you will become desolate.
Then you will know that I am the Lord!

“‘You have shown unrelenting hostility and poured the people of Israel onto the blades of a sword[a] at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment. Therefore, as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I will subject you to bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 35:5 tn Or “gave over…to the power of the sword.” This phrase also occurs in Jer 18:21 and Ps 63:10.