Ezekiel 35:7-15

7 "I will make Mount Seir a waste and a desolation and I will cut off from it the one who passes through and returns.

8 "I will ¹fill its mountains with its slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those slain by the sword will fall.

9 "I will make you an everlasting ²desolation and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

10 "Because you have ³said, 'These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we will possess them,' although the ⁴LORD was there,

11 therefore as I live," declares the Lord GOD, "I will deal with you ⁵according to your anger and according to your envy which you showed because of your hatred against them; so I will ⁶make Myself known among them when I judge you.

12 "Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard all your revilings which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel saying, 'They are laid desolate; they are ⁷given to us for food.'

13 "And you have ⁸spoken * arrogantly against Me and have multiplied your words against Me; ⁹I have heard it."

14 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "As all the ¹⁰earth rejoices, I will make you a desolation.

15 "As you ¹¹rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because * it was desolate, ¹²so I will do to you. You will be a ¹³desolation, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the LORD."'

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Ezekiel 35:7-15 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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 13

1. Isaiah 34:5, 6; Ezekiel 31:12; Ezekiel 32:4, 5; Ezekiel 39:4, 5
2. Jeremiah 49:13; Ezekiel 25:13
3. Psalms 83:4-12; Ezekiel 36:2, 5
4. Psalms 48:1-3; Psalms 132:13, 14; Isaiah 12:6; Ezekiel 48:35; Zephaniah 3:15
5. Psalms 137:7; Ezekiel 25:14; Amos 1:11
6. Psalms 9:16; Psalms 73:17, 18
7. Jeremiah 50:7; Ezekiel 36:2
8. Isaiah 10:13, 14; Isaiah 36:20; Jeremiah 48:26, 42; Daniel 11:36
9. Jeremiah 7:11; Jeremiah 29:23
10. Isaiah 44:23; Isaiah 49:13; Jeremiah 51:48
11. Jeremiah 50:11; Lamentations 4:21
12. Obadiah 15
13. Isaiah 34:5, 6; Ezekiel 35:3, 4

Footnotes 4

[a]. Lit "fall in them"
[b]. Lit "it"
[c]. Or "that I am the LORD": I have heard"
[d]. Lit "made great with your mouth"

Ezekiel 35:7-15

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Ezekiel 35:7-15 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 35

Cross References 13

Footnotes 4