Ezekiel 35:1-7

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.

Ezekiel 35:1-7 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

• 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