Ezekiel 35

Ezekiel 35

A Prophecy Against Edom

1Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it,[#Ge 32:3; Isa 21:11–12; Jer 49:7–22; Eze 25:12–14; Am 1:11–12; Ob]

3and say to it, Thus says the Lord God : Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir, and I will stretch out My hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and a waste.[#Jer 6:12; 15:6]

4I will lay your cities waste, and you shall become a desolation. Then you shall know that I am the Lord .[#Eze 35:9; Mal 1:3–4]

5Because you have had a perpetual hatred and have delivered the Israelites to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the punishment of the end,[#Ps 137:7; Eze 21:25, 29]

6therefore, as I live, says the Lord God , I will prepare you for bloodshed, and bloodshed shall pursue you. Since you have not hated bloodshed, therefore blood shall pursue you.[#Isa 63:2–6]

7Thus I will make Mount Seir a desolation and a waste, and cut off from it the one who passes through and the one who returns.[#Eze 35:3; #Eze 29:11]

8I will fill its mountains with its slain men. On your hills and in your valleys and in all your rivers, they shall fall who are slain with the sword.[#Eze 31:12; 32:4–5]

9I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited. Then you shall know that I am the Lord .[#Eze 25:13; #Eze 6:7]

10Because you have said, “These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess them,” whereas the Lord was there,[#Eze 36:5; #Eze 48:35]

11therefore, as I live, says the Lord God , I will treat you according to your anger and according to your envy, which you have showed out of your hatred against them. And I will make Myself known among them when I have judged you.[#Ps 9:16; Mt 7:2]

12Then you shall know that I, the Lord , have heard all your blasphemies which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, “They are laid desolate. They are given to us to consume.”[#Eze 36:2]

13Thus with your mouth you have boasted against Me and have multiplied your words against Me. I have heard them.[#1Sa 2:3; Da 11:36]

14Thus says the Lord God : When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you a desolation.

15As you rejoiced at the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You shall be a desolation, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they shall know that I am the Lord .[#Isa 34:5–6; La 4:21]

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