Ezekiel 35:1-9

A Prophecy Against Edom

1 The word of the LORD came to me:
2 “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir; prophesy against it
3 and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you and make you a desolate waste.
4 I will turn your towns into ruins and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
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 15

  • 1. S Genesis 14:6
  • 2. S Jeremiah 6:12
  • 3. S Isaiah 34:10; Ezekiel 25:12-14
  • 4. Jeremiah 44:2
  • 5. ver 9; S Jeremiah 49:10
  • 6. S Psalms 63:10
  • 7. Obadiah 1:13
  • 8. Psalms 137:7; S Ezekiel 21:29
  • 9. S Isaiah 34:3
  • 10. Isaiah 63:2-6
  • 11. S Jeremiah 46:19
  • 12. S Jeremiah 49:17
  • 13. S Ezekiel 31:12
  • 14. Obadiah 1:10
  • 15. S Isaiah 34:5-6; S Jeremiah 49:13
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