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Then they will know that I am the LORD.&#8217&#8221 <a href="/nlt/ezekiel/6.htm">New Living Translation</a> I will crush them and make their cities desolate from the wilderness in the south to Riblah in the north. Then they will know that I am the LORD.” <a href="/esv/ezekiel/6.htm">English Standard Version</a> And I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land desolate and waste, in all their dwelling places, from the wilderness to Riblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.” <a href="/bsb/ezekiel/6.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’” <a href="/kjv/ezekiel/6.htm">King James Bible</a> So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD. <a href="/nkjv/ezekiel/6.htm">New King James Version</a> So I will stretch out My hand against them and make the land desolate, yes, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblah, in all their dwelling places. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.’ ” ’ ” <a href="/nasb_/ezekiel/6.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> So through all their dwelling places I will stretch out My hand against them and make the land more desolate and waste than the wilderness toward Diblah; so they will know that I am the LORD.”’” <a href="/nasb/ezekiel/6.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8220So throughout all their habitations I will stretch out My hand against them and make the land more desolate and waste than the wilderness toward Diblah; thus they will know that I am the LORD."&#8217&#8221 <a href="/nasb77/ezekiel/6.htm">NASB 1977 </a> “So throughout all their habitations I shall stretch out My hand against them and make the land more desolate and waste than the wilderness toward Diblah; thus they will know that I am the LORD.”’” <a href="/lsb/ezekiel/6.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> So throughout all their habitations I will stretch out My hand against them and make the land more desolate and desecrated than the wilderness toward Diblah; thus they will know that I am Yahweh.”’” <a href="/amp/ezekiel/6.htm">Amplified Bible</a> And I will stretch out My hand against them and make the land a more desolate waste than the wilderness toward Diblah [the Moabite city], throughout all the places where they live; and they will know [without any doubt] that I am the LORD.”’” <a href="/csb/ezekiel/6.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> I will stretch out my hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Riblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.” <a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/6.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.&#8221 <a href="/asv/ezekiel/6.htm">American Standard Version</a> And I will stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate and waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all their habitations: and they shall know that I am Jehovah. <a href="/cev/ezekiel/6.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> I will make their country a barren wasteland, from the Southern Desert to the town of Diblah in the north. Then they will know that I, the LORD, have done these things. <a href="/erv/ezekiel/6.htm">English Revised Version</a> And I will stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate and waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD. <a href="/gwt/ezekiel/6.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> I will use my power against them and destroy the land, from the desert to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.'" <a href="/gnt/ezekiel/6.htm">Good News Translation</a> Yes, I will reach out and destroy their country. I will make it a wasteland from the southern desert to the city of Riblah in the north, not sparing any place where the Israelites live. Then everyone will know that I am the LORD." <a href="/isv/ezekiel/6.htm">International Standard Version</a> I'll stretch out my hands to strike them and send devastation to the land, from the wilderness of Diblah, throughout all their dwelling places. Then they'll know that I am the LORD." <a href="/msb/ezekiel/6.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.?? <a href="/net/ezekiel/6.htm">NET Bible</a> I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land a desolate waste from the wilderness to Riblah, in all the places where they live. Then they will know that I am the LORD!" <a href="/nheb/ezekiel/6.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> I will stretch out my hand on them, and make the land desolate and waste, from the wilderness toward Riblah, throughout all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD."'" <a href="/wbt/ezekiel/6.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, even, more desolate than the wilderness towards Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD. <a href="/web/ezekiel/6.htm">World English Bible</a> I will stretch out my hand on them and make the land desolate and waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all their habitations. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’” <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/ezekiel/6.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> And I have stretched out My hand against them, "" And have made the land a desolation, "" Even a desolation from the wilderness to Diblath, "" In all their dwellings, "" And they have known that I [am] YHWH!” <a href="/ylt/ezekiel/6.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> And I have stretched out my hand against them, And have made the land a desolation, Even a desolation from the wilderness to Diblath, In all their dwellings, And they have known that I am Jehovah!' <a href="/slt/ezekiel/6.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And I stretched forth my hand upon them, and I gave the land a desolation and an astonishment from the desert of Diblath, in all their dwellings: and they shall know that I am Jehovah.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/ezekiel/6.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> And I will stretch forth my hand upon them: and I will make the land desolate, and abandoned from the desert of Deblatha in all their dwelling places: and they shall know that I am the Lord. <a href="/cpdv/ezekiel/6.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> And I will extend my hand over them. And I will make the earth desolate and destitute: from the desert of Riblah to all their dwelling places. And they shall know that I am the Lord.” <a href="/nabre/ezekiel/6.htm">New American Bible</a> I will stretch out my hand against them; I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Riblah, wherever they live. Thus they shall know that I am the LORD. <a href="/nrsvce/ezekiel/6.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> I will stretch out my hand against them, and make the land desolate and waste, throughout all their settlements, from the wilderness to Riblah. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/ezekiel/6.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> So I will stretch out my hand against them and will make the land desolate and waste, more than the wilderness of Diblath, throughout all their habitations; and they shall know that I am the LORD. <a href="/hpbt/ezekiel/6.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And I shall lift my hands over them and I shall make the land a destruction and an astonishment, more than the wilderness of Deblath and all the place of their dwelling, and they shall know that I AM LORD JEHOVAH <div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/ezekiel/6.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> And I will stretch out My hand upon them, and make the land desolate and waste, more than the wilderness of Diblah, throughout all their habitations; and they shall know that I am the LORD.' <a href="/sep/ezekiel/6.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> And I will stretch out my hand against them, and I will make the land desolate and ruined from the wilderness of Deblatha, in all their habitations: and ye shall know that I am the Lord. <a href="/parallel/ezekiel/6-14.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vET3Gmwku4s?start=1291" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/6.htm">A Remnant to be Blessed</a> …13Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols. 14<a href="/hebrew/5186.htm" title="5186: wə·nā·ṭî·ṯî (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-1cs) -- A primitive root; to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away; used in a great variety of application.">I will stretch out</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3027.htm" title="3027: yā·ḏî (N-fsc:: 1cs) -- Hand (indicating power, means, direction, etc.)">My hand</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘ă·lê·hem (Prep:: 3mp) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">against them,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: bə·ḵōl (Prep-b:: N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">and wherever</a> <a href="/hebrew/4186.htm" title="4186: mō·wō·šə·ḇō·w·ṯê·hem (N-mpc:: 3mp) -- Or moshab; from yashab; a seat; figuratively, a site; abstractly, a session; by extension an abode; by implication, population.">they live</a> <a href="/hebrew/5414.htm" title="5414: wə·nā·ṯat·tî (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-1cs) -- To give, put, set. A primitive root; to give, used with greatest latitude of application.">I will make</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: hā·’ā·reṣ (Art:: N-fs) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">the land</a> <a href="/hebrew/8077.htm" title="8077: šə·mā·māh (N-fs) -- Devastation, waste. Or shimamah; feminine of shamem; devastation; figuratively, astonishment.">a desolate</a> <a href="/hebrew/4923.htm" title="4923: ū·mə·šam·māh (Conj-w:: N-fs) -- Devastation, waste, horror. From shamem; a waste or amazement.">waste,</a> <a href="/hebrew/4057.htm" title="4057: mim·miḏ·bar (Prep-m:: N-msc) -- A pasture, a desert, speech. From dabar in the sense of driving; a pasture; by implication, a desert; also speech.">from the wilderness</a> <a href="/hebrew/1689.htm" title="1689: diḇ·lā·ṯāh (N-proper-fs:: 3fs) -- A place in Aram (Syria) or N. Isr. Probably an orthographical error for Riblah; Diblah, a place in Syria.">to Diblah.</a> <a href="/hebrew/3045.htm" title="3045: wə·yā·ḏə·‘ū (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-3cp) -- A primitive root; to know; used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially.">Then they will know</a> <a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî- (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">that</a> <a href="/hebrew/589.htm" title="589: ’ă·nî (Pro-1cs) -- I. Contracted from 'anokiy; I.">I</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">am the LORD.’”</a> <div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/leviticus/26-31.htm">Leviticus 26:31-33</a> I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices. / And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled. / But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste. <a href="/deuteronomy/28-49.htm">Deuteronomy 28:49-52</a> The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand, / a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young. / They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish. ... <a href="/2_kings/17-18.htm">2 Kings 17:18-23</a> So the LORD was very angry with Israel, and He removed them from His presence. Only the tribe of Judah remained, / and even Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but lived according to the customs Israel had introduced. / So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel. He afflicted them and delivered them into the hands of plunderers, until He had banished them from His presence. ... <a href="/jeremiah/4-27.htm">Jeremiah 4:27</a> For this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction. <a href="/jeremiah/7-34.htm">Jeremiah 7:34</a> I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.” <a href="/jeremiah/25-11.htm">Jeremiah 25:11</a> And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years. <a href="/jeremiah/44-2.htm">Jeremiah 44:2-6</a> “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: You have seen all the disaster that I brought against Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah; and behold, they lie today in ruins and desolation / because of the evil they have done. They provoked Me to anger by continuing to burn incense and to serve other gods that neither they nor you nor your fathers ever knew. / Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: ‘Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.’ ... <a href="/lamentations/1-5.htm">Lamentations 1:5</a> Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD has brought her grief because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the enemy. <a href="/lamentations/2-15.htm">Lamentations 2:15</a> All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?” <a href="/amos/3-11.htm">Amos 3:11</a> Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “An enemy will surround the land; he will pull down your strongholds and plunder your citadels.” <a href="/amos/5-27.htm">Amos 5:27</a> Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts. <a href="/zephaniah/1-2.htm">Zephaniah 1:2-3</a> “I will completely sweep away everything from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD. / “I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, and the idols with their wicked worshipers. I will cut off mankind from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD. <a href="/matthew/23-38.htm">Matthew 23:38</a> Look, your house is left to you desolate. <a href="/luke/13-35.htm">Luke 13:35</a> Look, your house is left to you desolate. And I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’” <a href="/luke/21-20.htm">Luke 21:20-24</a> But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near. / Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country stay out of the city. / For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written. ...</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>So will I stretch out my hand on them, and make the land desolate, yes, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.will I<a href="/ezekiel/16-27.htm">Ezekiel 16:27</a> Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.<a href="/ezekiel/20-33.htm">Ezekiel 20:33,34</a> As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you: … <a href="/isaiah/5-25.htm">Isaiah 5:25</a> Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.more desolate than the wilderness.<a href="/numbers/33-46.htm">Numbers 33:46</a> And they removed from Dibongad, and encamped in Almondiblathaim.Almon-diblathaim<a href="/jeremiah/48-22.htm">Jeremiah 48:22</a> And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Bethdiblathaim,Beth diblathaim.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ezekiel/6-6.htm">Desolate</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-30.htm">Dwellings</a> <a href="/lamentations/2-2.htm">Habitations</a> <a href="/ezekiel/6-11.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/ezekiel/5-11.htm">Live</a> <a href="/ezekiel/5-1.htm">Making</a> <a href="/jeremiah/52-27.htm">Riblah</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-25.htm">Stretch</a> <a href="/ezekiel/4-8.htm">Stretched</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-52.htm">Throughout</a> <a href="/ezekiel/6-2.htm">Towards</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-29.htm">Unpeopled</a> <a href="/ezekiel/6-6.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/ezekiel/6-6.htm">Wherever</a> <a href="/lamentations/5-9.htm">Wilderness</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ezekiel/12-19.htm">Desolate</a> <a href="/ezekiel/25-4.htm">Dwellings</a> <a href="/ezekiel/19-7.htm">Habitations</a> <a href="/ezekiel/7-17.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/ezekiel/12-2.htm">Live</a> <a href="/ezekiel/8-8.htm">Making</a> <a href="/numbers/34-11.htm">Riblah</a> <a href="/ezekiel/14-9.htm">Stretch</a> <a href="/ezekiel/10-7.htm">Stretched</a> <a href="/ezekiel/9-4.htm">Throughout</a> <a href="/ezekiel/8-14.htm">Towards</a> <a href="/ezekiel/26-19.htm">Unpeopled</a> <a href="/ezekiel/12-20.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/ezekiel/21-16.htm">Wherever</a> <a href="/ezekiel/19-13.htm">Wilderness</a><div class="vheading2">Ezekiel 6</div>1. <a href="/ezekiel/6-1.htm">The judgment of Israel for their idolatry</a> 8. <a href="/ezekiel/6-8.htm">A remnant shall be blessed</a> 11. <a href="/ezekiel/6-11.htm">The faithful are exhorted to lament their abominations and calamities</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ezekiel/6.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ezekiel/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/ezekiel/6.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>I will stretch out My hand against them This phrase signifies God's active intervention and judgment. In biblical terms, the "hand of God" often represents His power and authority. This imagery is used throughout Scripture to denote divine action, whether in deliverance or judgment (<a href="/exodus/7-5.htm">Exodus 7:5</a>, <a href="/isaiah/5-25.htm">Isaiah 5:25</a>). The stretching out of God's hand against Israel indicates a deliberate act of punishment due to their idolatry and rebellion.and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste The desolation of the land is a common theme in prophetic literature, symbolizing the consequences of sin and disobedience. This desolation serves as a physical manifestation of spiritual barrenness. Historically, the land of Israel faced invasions and destruction, notably by the Babylonians, which fulfilled these prophecies. The desolation also serves as a warning to future generations about the seriousness of turning away from God.from the wilderness to Diblah The mention of "the wilderness to Diblah" indicates the extent of the desolation. The wilderness often refers to the desert regions surrounding Israel, while Diblah is less certain in its geographical identification. Some scholars suggest it may be a textual variant of Riblah, a location in northern Israel. This phrase underscores the totality of the judgment, covering the entire land.Then they will know that I am the LORD.’” This concluding phrase emphasizes the purpose of God's judgment: to bring recognition of His sovereignty and holiness. Throughout the book of Ezekiel, this refrain is repeated, highlighting the ultimate goal of divine actions—to lead people to acknowledge and revere God. This acknowledgment is not just intellectual but relational, calling for repentance and renewed faithfulness. The phrase also points to the eschatological hope that all nations will eventually recognize the Lordship of God (<a href="/philippians/2-10.htm">Philippians 2:10-11</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/e/ezekiel.htm">Ezekiel</a> A prophet called by God to deliver messages of judgment and hope to the Israelites during their Babylonian exile. 2. <a href="/topical/t/the_israelites.htm">The Israelites</a> The people of God who are being judged for their idolatry and disobedience. 3. <a href="/topical/t/the_wilderness.htm">The Wilderness</a> Represents the barren and uninhabited areas, symbolizing desolation and judgment. 4. <a href="/topical/d/diblah.htm">Diblah</a> A location mentioned in the prophecy, possibly representing the extent of the land affected by God's judgment. 5. <a href="/topical/t/the_lord.htm">The LORD</a> The sovereign God who executes judgment to affirm His identity and authority.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_and_justice.htm">God's Sovereignty and Justice</a> God's judgment is a demonstration of His sovereignty and justice. He holds His people accountable for their actions, reminding us of the importance of living in obedience to His commands. <a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_idolatry.htm">The Consequences of Idolatry</a> Idolatry leads to spiritual and physical desolation. We must examine our lives for anything that takes precedence over our relationship with God and remove it. <a href="/topical/r/recognition_of_god's_authority.htm">Recognition of God's Authority</a> The ultimate purpose of God's judgment is for His people to recognize and acknowledge Him as the LORD. Our lives should reflect a continual acknowledgment of God's authority and lordship. <a href="/topical/h/hope_in_restoration.htm">Hope in Restoration</a> While the passage speaks of desolation, it also implies the possibility of restoration. God's judgments are often followed by opportunities for repentance and renewal. <a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_repentance.htm">The Importance of Repentance</a> Repentance is crucial in restoring our relationship with God. We should be quick to repent and turn back to God when we recognize sin in our lives.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_ezekiel_6.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Ezekiel 6</a> <a href="/q/why_does_god_declare_devastation_yet_not_end.htm">Jeremiah 4:27: Why does God declare total devastation yet say He won’t “make a full end,” and isn’t this contradictory? </a> <a href="/q/how_does_psalm_95_7-11_align_with_god's_mercy.htm">If Psalm 95:7-11 portrays God's long-term wrath on an entire generation, how does that reconcile with passages emphasizing God's mercy (e.g., Exodus 34:6)?</a> <a href="/q/evidence_for_70_years_fasting.htm">Zechariah 7:5 mentions seventy years of fasting; is there archaeological or historical evidence to confirm the exact duration of this period?</a> <a href="/q/how_does_ezekiel_8's_view_on_idols_compare.htm">How does the severe condemnation of these idolatries in Ezekiel 8 align or conflict with other biblical accounts of tolerating foreign gods?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/ezekiel/6.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(14) More desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath.--The name Diblath does not occur elsewhere; but Diblathaim, the dual form, is mentioned in <a href="/context/numbers/33-46.htm" title="And they removed from Dibongad, and encamped in Almondiblathaim.">Numbers 33:46-47</a>, <a href="/jeremiah/48-22.htm" title="And on Dibon, and on Nebo, and on Bethdiblathaim,">Jeremiah 48:22</a>, as a double city on the eastern border of Moab, beyond which lay the great desert which stretches thence eastward, nearly to the Euphrates. It was customary to call any wilderness by the name of the nearest town. (See <a href="/context/1_samuel/23-14.htm" title="And David stayed in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.">1Samuel 23:14-15</a>; <a href="/context/1_samuel/23-24.htm" title="And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon.">1Samuel 23:24-25</a>; <a href="/1_samuel/25-2.htm" title="And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.">1Samuel 25:2</a>, &c.) That wilderness appears from this passage to have been proverbial for its desolation.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/ezekiel/6.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 14. - More desolate than the wilderness towards Diblath; better, with the Authorized Version, from the wilderness. The name does not appear elsewhere, and has not been identified. Assuming the Authorized Version rendering, we must think of Ezekiel as naming, as Dante haines the Valdichiana ('Inf.,' 29:47), some specially horrible and desolate region. For such a region the name of Diblah (a cake of figs) does not seem appropriate. Taking the Revised Version translation ("from the wilderness toward Diblah"), we have a phrase analogous to "from Dan to Beersheba," as denoting the extent of the desolation. The "wilderness" is usually applied to the nomad region south of Palestine, and this would lead us to look for Diblah in the north, and so to look elsewhere than to the two places Beth-diblathaim (<a href="/jeremiah/48-22.htm">Jeremiah 48:22</a>) and Almon-diblathaim (<a href="/numbers/33-46.htm">Numbers 33:46</a>), both of which are in Moab. The difficulty was solved by Jerome by the conjectural emendation of Riblah, the two Hebrew letters for d and r being often written by copyists for each other. Riblah (it is a suggestive fact that the two chief manuscripts of the LXX. the Alexandrian and the Vatican, have Deblatha, or Deblaa, in <a href="/2_kings/23-33.htm">2 Kings 23:33</a>; <a href="/2_kings/25-6.htm">2 Kings 25:6</a>) was a fortified town on the north road from Palestine to Babylon, where the Babylonian kings used to take up their position during their invasions of the former. Within a short time after Ezekiel wrote this chapter, it became memorable in its connection with Zedekiah's sufferings (comp. <a href="/2_kings/23-33.htm">2 Kings 23:33</a>; <a href="/2_kings/25-6.htm">2 Kings 25:6, 20, 21</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/39-5.htm">Jeremiah 39:5, 6</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/52-9.htm">Jeremiah 52:9, 10, 26</a>). Its probable site is fixed on the banks of the Orontes. The evidence, on the whole, is, I think, in favour of this interpretation. It is adopted by Ewald, Cornill, Smend, Gesenius, and most recent critics. An additional fact in its favour is that Hamath, in the same region, appears as an ideal northern boundary in <a href="/ezekiel/47-16.htm">Ezekiel 47:16</a>. <a href="/commentaries/ezekiel/6-14.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>I will stretch out וְנָטִ֤יתִי (wə·nā·ṭî·ṯî) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5186.htm">Strong's 5186: </a> To stretch out, spread out, extend, incline, bend My hand יָדִי֙ (yā·ḏî) Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3027.htm">Strong's 3027: </a> A hand against them, עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם (‘ă·lê·hem) Preposition | third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> Above, over, upon, against and wherever בְּכֹ֖ל (bə·ḵōl) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> The whole, all, any, every they live מוֹשְׁבֽוֹתֵיהֶ֑ם (mō·wō·šə·ḇō·w·ṯê·hem) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4186.htm">Strong's 4186: </a> A seat, assembly, dwelling place, dwelling, dwellers I will make וְנָתַתִּ֨י (wə·nā·ṯat·tî) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5414.htm">Strong's 5414: </a> To give, put, set the land הָאָ֜רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ) Article | Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> Earth, land a desolate שְׁמָמָ֤ה (šə·mā·māh) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8077.htm">Strong's 8077: </a> Devastation, astonishment waste, וּמְשַׁמָּה֙ (ū·mə·šam·māh) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4923.htm">Strong's 4923: </a> Devastation, waste, horror from the wilderness מִמִּדְבַּ֣ר (mim·miḏ·bar) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4057.htm">Strong's 4057: </a> A pasture, a desert, speech to Diblah. דִּבְלָ֔תָה (diḇ·lā·ṯāh) Noun - proper - feminine singular | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1689.htm">Strong's 1689: </a> Diblah -- a place in Aram (Syria) or Northern Israel Then they will know וְיָדְע֖וּ (wə·yā·ḏə·‘ū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3045.htm">Strong's 3045: </a> To know that כִּֽי־ (kî-) Conjunction <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> A relative conjunction I אֲנִ֥י (’ă·nî) Pronoun - first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_589.htm">Strong's 589: </a> I am the LORD.’” יְהוָֽה׃ (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezekiel/6-14.htm">Ezekiel 6:14 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/ezekiel/6-14.htm">Ezekiel 6:14 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/ezekiel/6-14.htm">Ezekiel 6:14 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/ezekiel/6-14.htm">Ezekiel 6:14 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/ezekiel/6-14.htm">Ezekiel 6:14 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/ezekiel/6-14.htm">Ezekiel 6:14 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ezekiel/6-14.htm">Ezekiel 6:14 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/ezekiel/6-14.htm">Ezekiel 6:14 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/ezekiel/6-14.htm">Ezekiel 6:14 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/ezekiel/6-14.htm">Ezekiel 6:14 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/ezekiel/6-14.htm">OT Prophets: Ezekiel 6:14 I will stretch out my hand (Ezek. 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