The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Ezekiel 35
1 Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me,
saying,
2 “Son of man, set your face against
Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
3 and tell it, ‘The Lord Yahweh says:
“Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and
I will stretch out my hand against you. I
will make you a desolation and an astonishment.
4 I will lay your cities waste, and you will
be desolate. Then you will know that I am
Yahweh.
5 Because you have had a perpetual
hostility, and have given over the children
of Israel to the power of the sword in the
time of their calamity, in the time of the
iniquity of the end,
6 therefore, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh,
“I will prepare you for blood, and
blood will pursue you. Since you have not
hated blood, therefore blood will pursue
you.
7 Thus I will make Mount Seir an astonishment
and a desolation. I will cut off
from it him who passes through and him
who returns.
8 I will fill its mountains with its slain.
The slain with the sword will fall in your
hills and in your valleys and in all your
watercourses.
9 I will make you a perpetual desolation,
and your cities will not be inhabited. Then
you will know that I am Yahweh.
10 Because you have said, ‘These two
nations and these two countries will be
mine, and we will possess it,’ although
Yahweh was there,
11 therefore, as I live,” says the Lord
Yahweh, “I will do according to your anger,
and according to your envy which you
have shown out of your hatred against
them; and I will make myself known
among them when I judge you.
12 You will know that I, Yahweh, have
heard all your insults which you have
spoken against the mountains of Israel,
saying, ‘They have been laid desolate. They
have been given to us to devour.’
13 You have magnified yourselves
against me with your mouth, and have
multiplied your words against me. I have
heard it.”
14 The Lord Yahweh says: “When the
whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.
15 As you rejoiced over the inheritance of
the house of Israel because it was desolate,
so I will do to you. You will be desolate,
Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it.
Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’ ”