Ezekiel 35:3-9

3 and say to it, Thus says the Lord GOD: ¹Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and ²I will stretch out my hand against you, ³and I will make you a desolation and a waste.

4 ⁴I will lay your cities waste, and you shall become a desolation, and you shall know that I am the LORD.

5 Because ⁵you cherished perpetual enmity and gave over the people of Israel to the power of the sword ⁶at the time of their calamity, ⁷at the time of their final punishment,

6 therefore, ⁸as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; ⁹because you did not hate bloodshed, therefore blood shall pursue you.

7 ¹⁰I will make Mount Seir a waste ¹¹and a desolation, and I will cut off from it ¹²all who come and go.

8 And I will fill ¹³its mountains with the slain. On your hills and in your valleys and in all ¹⁴your ravines ¹⁵those slain with the sword shall fall.

9 ¹⁶I will make you a perpetual desolation, and ¹⁷your cities shall not be inhabited. Then ¹⁸you will know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 35:3-9 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. See Ezekiel 13:8
• 2. See Ezekiel 6:14
• 3. [Ezekiel 33:28]
• 4. [Isaiah 17:9; Isaiah 27:10]
• 5. [Psalms 137:7; Amos 1:11]
• 6. Obadiah 13
• 7. Ezekiel 21:25
• 8. See Ezekiel 16:48
• 9. See Genesis 9:6
• 10. [See ver. 3 above]
• 11. [See ver. 4 above]
• 12. Ezekiel 29:11
• 13. [Ezekiel 31:12]
• 14. [Ezekiel 31:12]
• 15. Ezekiel 31:17, 18; Ezekiel 32:20, 21
• 16. [See ver. 3 above]
• 17. [See ver. 4 above]
• 18. See Ezekiel 6:7