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Ezekiel 35 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

Prophecy Against Mount Seir

Eze 35:1

Moreover, the word of Yahweh came to me saying,

Eze 35:2“Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it
Eze 35:3and say to it, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh,

“Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir,

And I will stretch out My hand against you

And make you a desolation and a desecration.

Eze 35:4

“I will lay waste your cities,

And you will become a desolation.

Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

Eze 35:5

“Because you have had everlasting enmity and have [fn]delivered the sons of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their disaster, at the time of the [fn]punishment of the end,

Eze 35:6therefore as I live,” declares Lord Yahweh, “I will [fn]prepare you for bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you; you surely have not hated bloodshed, so bloodshed will pursue you.
Eze 35:7“I will make Mount Seir a waste and a desolation, and I will cut off from it the one who passes through and returns.
Eze 35:8“I will fill its mountains with its slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those slain by the sword will [fn]fall.
Eze 35:9“I will make you an everlasting desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
Eze 35:10

“Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we will possess [fn]them,’ although Yahweh was there,

Eze 35:11therefore as I live,” declares Lord Yahweh, “I will deal with you according to your anger and according to your jealousy which you dealt with them because of your hatred against them; so I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.
Eze 35:12“Then you will know [fn]that I, Yahweh, have heard all your [fn]contempt which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel saying, ‘They are laid desolate; they are given to us for food.’
Eze 35:13“And you have magnified yourselves with your mouth against Me and have multiplied your words against Me; I have heard it.”
Eze 35:14‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “As all the earth delights, I will make you a desolation.
Eze 35:15“As you delighted over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be a desolation, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”’
LSB Footnotes
Lit poured
Or iniquity
Lit do
Lit fall in them
Lit it
Or that I am Yahweh: I have heard
Or blasphemies, cf. Neh 9:18, 26
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