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I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
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A Permanent Ruin
Commentators emphasize that the judgment described is not temporary but "perpetual." John Gill notes that the cities "shall not return," meaning they will never be rebuilt or inhabited again. He compares this finality to the prophecies against Edom in Malachi and the ultimate fall of Babylon in Revelation, illustrating a type of divine judgment that is absolute and irreversible.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Return - Or, “be inhabited.”
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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