Ezekiel 35:1-9

Prophecy Against Mount Seir

1 The word of the LORD came to me:
2 1"Son of man, 2set your face 3against 4Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
3 and say to it, Thus says the Lord GOD: 5Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and 6I will stretch out my hand against you, 7and I will make you a desolation and a waste.
4 8I will lay your cities waste, and you shall become a desolation, and you shall know that I am the LORD.
5 Because 9you cherished perpetual enmity and gave over the people of Israel to the power of the sword 10at the time of their calamity, 11at the time of their final punishment,
6 therefore, 12as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; 13because you did not hate bloodshed, therefore blood shall pursue you.
7 14I will make Mount Seir a waste 15and a desolation, and I will cut off from it 16all who come and go.
8 And I will fill 17its mountains with the slain. On your hills and in your valleys and in all 18your ravines 19those slain with the sword shall fall.
9 20I will make you a perpetual desolation, and 21your cities shall not be inhabited. Then 22you will know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 35:1-9 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 35

This chapter is a prophecy of the destruction of Edom, which is threatened, Eze 35:1-4, the cause of it, their hatred and slaughter of the Israelites, Eze 35:5-9, their claim of the lands of Israel and Judah for possession, Eze 35:10,11, their blasphemies against the people of God, and the Lord himself, Eze 35:12,13, the aggravation of their ruin, which was irretrievable; that when it was well with others, it should go ill with them; by way of just retaliation, Eze 35:14,15.

Cross References 22

  • 1. See Ezekiel 2:1
  • 2. See Ezekiel 6:2
  • 3. Ezekiel 25:12; Isaiah 21:11, 12; Amos 1:11; Malachi 1:4
  • 4. Ezekiel 25:8; Genesis 32:3
  • 5. See Ezekiel 13:8
  • 6. See Ezekiel 6:14
  • 7. [Ezekiel 33:28]
  • 8. [Isaiah 17:9; Isaiah 27:10]
  • 9. [Psalms 137:7; Amos 1:11]
  • 10. Obadiah 13
  • 11. Ezekiel 21:25
  • 12. See Ezekiel 16:48
  • 13. See Genesis 9:6
  • 14. [See ver. 3 above]
  • 15. [See ver. 4 above]
  • 16. Ezekiel 29:11
  • 17. [Ezekiel 31:12]
  • 18. [Ezekiel 31:12]
  • 19. Ezekiel 31:17, 18; Ezekiel 32:20, 21
  • 20. [See ver. 3 above]
  • 21. [See ver. 4 above]
  • 22. See Ezekiel 6:7
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