Ezekiel 35

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.

10 "Because you said, ²³'These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and ²⁴we will take possession of them'--although the ²⁵LORD was there--

11 therefore, ²⁶as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will deal with you ²⁷according to the anger and ²⁸envy that you showed because of your hatred against them. And ²⁹I will make myself known among them, when I judge you.

12 And you shall know that I am the LORD. ³⁰"I have heard all the revilings that you uttered against the mountains of Israel, saying, 'They are laid desolate; ³¹they are given us to devour.'

13 And ³²you magnified yourselves against me ³³with your mouth, and multiplied your words against me; I heard it.

14 Thus says the Lord GOD: ³⁴While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

15 As you ³⁵rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will deal with you; you shall be desolate, ³⁶Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then ³⁷they will know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 35 Commentary

Chapter 35

A prophecy against Edom.

Verses 1-9 All who have God against them, have the word of God against them. Those that have a constant hatred to God and his people, as the carnal mind has, can only expect to be made desolate for ever.

Verses 10-15 When we see the vanity of the world in the disappointments, losses, and crosses, which others meet with, instead of showing ourselves greedy of worldly things, we should sit more loose to them. In the multitude of words, not one is unknown to God; not the most idle word; and the most daring is not above his rebuke. In the destruction of the enemies of the church, God designs his own glory; and we may be sure that he will not come short of his design. And when the fulness of the Jews and Gentiles shall come into the church, all antichristian opposers shall be destroyed.

Cross References

• 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
• 23. [Ezekiel 37:22]
• 24. [Ezekiel 36:2, 3, 5; Psalms 83:6, 12]
• 25. See Ezekiel 48:35
• 26. [See ver. 6 above]
• 27. [ver. 15; Matthew 7:2]
• 28. [ver. 15; Matthew 7:2]
• 29. [ver. 9]
• 30. [2 Kings 19:4, 28]
• 31. [ver. 10]
• 32. [See ver. 12 above]
• 33. [1 Samuel 2:3]
• 34. [Isaiah 65:13, 14]
• 35. Ezekiel 36:5; Psalms 137:7
• 36. ver. 2
• 37. See Ezekiel 6:7

Chapter Summary

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.