Ezekiel 35:9

Overview - Ezekiel 35
The judgment of mount Seir for their hatred of Israel, and insulting over their distress.
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Ezekiel 35:9  (King James Version)
I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
 


I will make
After being subdued by Nebuchadnezzar, about five years after the destruction of Jerusalem, many of the Edomites, during the Babylonian captivity, being driven from their ancient habitation by the Nabatheans, seized upon the south-western part of Judea; but afterwards they were conquered by Hyrcanus, and reduced to the necessity of embracing the Jewish religion; and at last became either incorporated with that nation, or swallowed up and lost among the Nabathean Arabs, so that the very name was abolished and disused about the end of the first century after Christ. Their country is now barren; and their cities, even Bozra and Petra, totally demolished and in ruins.

perpetual
4 ; 25:13 Jeremiah 49:17 Jeremiah 49:18 ; Zephaniah 2:9 ; Malachi 1:3 Malachi 1:4

and ye
6:7 Ezekiel 7:4 Ezekiel 7:9 36:11