Ezekiel 35

Ezekiel 35:1

Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

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Ezekiel 35:2

“Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it,

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Ezekiel 35:3

and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir. I will stretch out My hand against you and make you a desolate waste.

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Ezekiel 35:4

I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

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Ezekiel 35:5

Because you harbored an ancient hatred and delivered the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their disaster at the final stage of their punishment,

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shed the blood of Heb. poured out

Ezekiel 35:6

therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, it will pursue you.

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Ezekiel 35:7

I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.

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Ezekiel 35:8

I will fill its mountains with the slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines.

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Ezekiel 35:9

I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

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I will make After being subdued by Nebuchadnezzar , about five years after the destruction of Jerusalem , many of the Edomites , during the Babylonian captivity , being driven from their ancient habitation by the Nabatheans , seized upon the south-western part of Judea; but afterwards they were conquered by Hyrcanus , and reduced to the necessity of embracing the Jewish religion; and at last became either incorporated with that nation , or swallowed up and lost among the Nabathean Arabs , so that the very name was abolished and disused about the end of the first century after Christ. Their country is now barren; and their cities , even Bozra and Petra , totally demolished and in ruins.

Ezekiel 35:10

Because you have said, ‘These two nations and countries will be ours, and we will possess them,’ even though the LORD was there,

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Ezekiel 35:11

therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will treat you according to the anger and jealousy you showed in your hatred against them, and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.

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Ezekiel 35:12

Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard every contemptuous word you uttered against the mountains of Israel when you said, ‘They are desolate; they are given to us to devour!’

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Ezekiel 35:13

You boasted against Me with your mouth and multiplied your words against Me. I heard it Myself!

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boasted Heb. magnified

Ezekiel 35:14

This is what the Lord GOD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

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Ezekiel 35:15

As you rejoiced when the inheritance of the house of Israel became desolate, so will I do to you. You will become a desolation, O Mount Seir, and so will all of Edom. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

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