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

• 1. 35:2 See ch. 2:1
• 2. 35:2 See ch. 6:2
• 3. 35:2 ch. 25:12; Isa. 21:11, 12; Amos 1:11; Mal. 1:4
• 4. 35:2 ch. 25:8; Gen. 32:3
• 5. 35:3 See ch. 13:8
• 6. 35:3 See ch. 6:14
• 7. 35:3 [ch. 33:28]
• 8. 35:4 [Isa. 17:9; 27:10]
• 9. 35:5 [Ps. 137:7; Amos 1:11]
• 10. 35:5 Obad. 13
• 11. 35:5 ch. 21:25
• 12. 35:6 See ch. 16:48
• 13. 35:6 See Gen. 9:6
• 14. 35:7 [See ver. 3 above]
• 15. 35:7 [See ver. 4 above]
• 16. 35:7 ch. 29:11
• 17. 35:8 [ch. 31:12]
• 18. 35:8 [ch. 31:12]
• 19. 35:8 ch. 31:17, 18; 32:20, 21
• 20. 35:9 [See ver. 3 above]
• 21. 35:9 [See ver. 4 above]
• 22. 35:9 See ch. 6:7