Ezekiel 35:7

7 I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and cut off from it all who come and go.

Ezekiel 35:7 in Other Translations

7 Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.

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

7 I will make Mount Seir utterly desolate, killing off all who try to escape and any who return.

7 I'll reduce Mount Seir to a heap of rubble. No one will either come or go from that place!

7 Thus will I make mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation; and I will cut off from it him that passeth through and him that returneth.

7 I will turn Mount Seir into a barren wasteland, and I will destroy everyone who comes or goes from there.

7 I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.

7 " ' "I will turn Mount Seir into a dry and empty desert. No one will be able to go anywhere or do anything there.

Ezekiel 35:7 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 35:7

Thus will I make Mount Seir most desolate
By shedding the blood of the inhabitants of it; and as Rome will be, when it will be utterly burnt with fire, as that city will, and the flesh of the whore also, and made desolate; and when all the vials shall be poured out on the antichristian states under her jurisdiction, ( Revelation 16:1 ) ( 17:16 ) ( 18:8 ) : and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth:
every traveller that passeth to and fro; it shall no more be frequented by merchants; nor will there be any merchandise any more in it, ( Revelation 18:11 ) .

Ezekiel 35:7 In-Context

5 “ ‘Because you harbored an ancient hostility and delivered the Israelites over to the sword at the time of their calamity, the time their punishment reached its climax,

6 therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.

7 I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and cut off from it all who come and go.

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

9 I will make you desolate forever; your towns will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

Cross References

• 1. S Jeremiah 46:19
• 2. S Jeremiah 49:17