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    Ezekiel 35

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    Mount Seir is promised the very fate it once applauded: while the whole earth rejoices, it is made desolate, as desolate as the inheritance of Israel that had pleased it so much.

    A face set against Seirvv. 1–4

    The word of the LORD comes to Ezekiel with a severe little itinerary: set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy. Its cities will become ruins, its land a desolation, and the recognition that follows is the repeated refrain: then it will know who the LORD is.

    When bloodshed comes lookingvv. 5–9

    The charge is an ancient hatred, made practical by handing Israelites over to the sword when their disaster was reaching its final stage. The sentence has a neat and grim hinge: because Mount Seir did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue it. The hills, valleys, and ravines are then given a very crowded future, while the cities receive none at all.

    The boast overheardvv. 10–15

    Mount Seir has spoken as though two nations and countries were available for collection, despite the LORD being there. It has also called the mountains of Israel desolate and ready to devour, and multiplied its words against the LORD. The speech answers with judgment, and with the wonderfully blunt aside that none of it escaped notice: “I heard it Myself!” Its pleasure over Israel’s desolation is returned to it, measure for measure, until Edom too is a desolation.

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    1. Ezek 35:1Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

    2. Ezek 35:2“Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it,

    3. Ezek 35:3and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir. I will stretch out My hand against you and make you a desolate waste.

    4. Ezek 35:4I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

    5. Ezek 35:5Because you harbored an ancient hatred and delivered the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their disaster at the final stage of their punishment,

    6. Ezek 35:6therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, it will pursue you.

    7. Ezek 35:7I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.

    8. Ezek 35:8I will fill its mountains with the slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines.

    9. Ezek 35:9I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

    10. Ezek 35:10Because you have said, ‘These two nations and countries will be ours, and we will possess them,’ even though the LORD was there,

    11. Ezek 35:11therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will treat you according to the anger and jealousy you showed in your hatred against them, and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.

    12. Ezek 35:12Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard every contemptuous word you uttered against the mountains of Israel when you said, ‘They are desolate; they are given to us to devour!’

    13. Ezek 35:13You boasted against Me with your mouth and multiplied your words against Me. I heard it Myself!

    14. Ezek 35:14This is what the Lord GOD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

    15. Ezek 35:15As you rejoiced when the inheritance of the house of Israel became desolate, so will I do to you. You will become a desolation, O Mount Seir, and so will all of Edom. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’’

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    • 5Psalms 137:7Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”
    • 10Ezekiel 36:5Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Surely in My burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who took My land as their own possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, so that its pastureland became plunder.
    • 4Ezekiel 35:9I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
    • 5Obadiah 1:10–16Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.
    • 5Amos 1:11This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Edom, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and stifled all compassion; his anger raged continually, and his fury flamed incessantly.
    • 6Isaiah 63:2–6Why are Your clothes red, and Your garments like one who treads the winepress?
    • 8Ezekiel 31:12Foreigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. And all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.
    • 10Psalms 83:4–12saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
    • 10Ezekiel 48:35The perimeter of the city will be 18,000 cubits, and from that day on the name of the city will be: THE LORD IS THERE.”
    • 3Jeremiah 6:12Their houses will be turned over to others, their fields and wives as well, for I will stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land,” declares the LORD.
    • 5Ezekiel 21:29while they offer false visions for you and lying divinations about you—to be placed on the necks of the wicked who are slain, whose day has come, the time of their final punishment.
    • 5Ezekiel 25:12This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Edom acted vengefully against the house of Judah, and in so doing incurred grievous guilt,
    • 5Ezekiel 21:25And you, O profane and wicked prince of Israel, the day has come for your final punishment.’
    • 9Ezekiel 25:13therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.
    • 10Psalms 48:1–3A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain.
    • 10Ezekiel 36:2This is what the Lord GOD says: Because the enemy has said of you, ‘Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession,’

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