New American Standard Bible 1995

Ezekiel 35:3-10

3and say to it, ‘Thus says the Lord 1God, “Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, And I will 2stretch out My hand against you And make you a 3desolation and a waste.4I will 4lay waste your cities And you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the Lord. 5Because you have had everlasting 5enmity and have 6delivered the sons of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of the 7 8punishment of the end, 6therefore as I live,” declares the Lord God, “I will 9give you over to 10bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you; since you have not hated bloodshed, therefore bloodshed will pursue you. 7I will make Mount Seir a waste and a desolation and I will cut off from it the one who passes through and returns. 8I will 11fill its mountains with its slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those slain by the sword will 12fall. 9I will make you an everlasting 13desolation and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

10“Because you have 14said, ‘These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we will possess 15them,’ although the 16Lord was there,

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Notes

1. Ezekiel 35:3 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch ↩
2. Ezekiel 35:3 Jer 6:12; 15:6; Ezek 25:13 ↩
3. Ezekiel 35:3 Jer 49:13, 17, 18; Ezek 35:7 ↩
4. Ezekiel 35:4 Ezek 6:6; 35:9; Mal 1:3, 4 ↩
5. Ezekiel 35:5 Ps 137:7; Ezek 25:12, 15; 36:5; Amos 1:11; Obad 10 ↩
6. Ezekiel 35:5 Lit poured ↩
7. Ezekiel 35:5 Or iniquity ↩
8. Ezekiel 35:5 Ezek 7:2; 21:25, 29 ↩
9. Ezekiel 35:6 Lit prepare you for ↩
10. Ezekiel 35:6 Is 63:2-6; Ezek 16:38; 32:6 ↩
11. Ezekiel 35:8 Is 34:5, 6; Ezek 31:12; 32:4, 5; 39:4, 5 ↩
12. Ezekiel 35:8 Lit fall in them ↩
13. Ezekiel 35:9 Jer 49:13; Ezek 25:13 ↩
14. Ezekiel 35:10 Ps 83:4-12; Ezek 36:2, 5 ↩
15. Ezekiel 35:10 Lit it ↩
16. Ezekiel 35:10 Ps 48:1-3; 132:13, 14; Is 12:6; Ezek 48:35; Zeph 3:15 ↩

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