Ezekiel 35:4
King James Version
10 Jun 2026
“I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.”
הָיָה
I AM. Hayah. The self-existent one. When Moses asked God His name God said I AM THAT I AM. Not I was or I will be but I AM. Always present always existing always enough. Jesus used the same words: before Abraham was I AM.
שׂוּם
I will make
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שׂוּם
To put, to set, to place. Shuwm. I have set the LORD always before me. A deliberate daily choice to keep God at the centre of everything.
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יְהֹוָה
am Yahweh
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יְהֹוָה
LORD. Yahweh. The covenant name of God. I AM WHO I AM. The self-existent eternal One who was is and always will be.
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עִיר
cities/ your
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עִיר
a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
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חׇרְבָּה
a ruin
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חׇרְבָּה
properly, drought, i.e. (by implication) a desolation
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שְׁמָמָה
a desolation
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שְׁמָמָה
devastation; figuratively, astonishment
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