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Ezekiel 35 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

A Message for Edom
Eze 35:1Again a message came to me from the LORD:
Eze 35:2“Son of man, turn and face Mount Seir, and prophesy against its people.
Eze 35:3Give them this message from the Sovereign LORD:
“I am your enemy, O Mount Seir,
and I will raise my fist against you
to destroy you completely.
Eze 35:4I will demolish your cities
and make you desolate.
Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Eze 35:5“Your eternal hatred for the people of Israel led you to butcher them when they were helpless, when I had already punished them for all their sins.
Eze 35:6As surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, since you show no distaste for blood, I will give you a bloodbath of your own. Your turn has come!
Eze 35:7I will make Mount Seir utterly desolate, killing off all who try to escape and any who return.
Eze 35:8I will fill your mountains with the dead. Your hills, your valleys, and your ravines will be filled with people slaughtered by the sword.
Eze 35:9I will make you desolate forever. Your cities will never be rebuilt. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Eze 35:10“For you said, ‘The lands of Israel and Judah will be ours. We will take possession of them. What do we care that the LORD is there!’
Eze 35:11Therefore, as surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, I will pay back your angry deeds with my own. I will punish you for all your acts of anger, envy, and hatred. And I will make myself known to Israel[fn] by what I do to you.
Eze 35:12Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard every contemptuous word you spoke against the mountains of Israel. For you said, ‘They are desolate; they have been given to us as food to eat!’
Eze 35:13In saying that, you boasted proudly against me, and I have heard it all!
Eze 35:14“This is what the Sovereign LORD says: The whole world will rejoice when I make you desolate.
Eze 35:15You rejoiced at the desolation of Israel’s territory. Now I will rejoice at yours! You will be wiped out, you people of Mount Seir and all who live in Edom! Then you will know that I am the LORD.
NLT Footnotes
Hebrew to them; Greek version reads to you.
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