Ezekiel 35

1Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,Cross-references: Ezek 21:1 · Ezek 22:1 · Ezek 34:1 · 2Pet 1:21

2“Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,Cross-references: Gen 32:3 · Gen 36:8 · Deut 2:5 · Josh 24:4 · 2Chr 20:10 · 2Chr 20:22 · +19 more

3and tell it, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you. I will make you a desolation and an astonishment.Cross-references: Jer 6:12 · Jer 15:6 · Jer 21:13 · Jer 51:25 · Ezek 5:8 · Ezek 5:15 · +8 more

4I will lay your cities waste, and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.Cross-references: Ex 9:14 · Ex 14:4 · Ezek 6:6 · Ezek 35:9 · Ezek 35:12 · Joel 3:19 · +1 more

5“‘“Because you have had a perpetual hostility, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end,Cross-references: Gen 27:41 · Ps 137:7 · Jer 18:21 · Ezek 21:25 · Ezek 21:29 · Ezek 25:12 · +5 more

6therefore, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will prepare you for blood, and blood will pursue you. Since you have not hated blood, therefore blood will pursue you.Cross-references: Ps 109:16 · Isa 63:2 · Obad 1:15 · Matt 7:2 · Rev 16:5 · Rev 18:6 · +2 more

7Thus I will make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation. I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns.Cross-references: Judg 5:6 · 2Chr 15:5 · Ezek 29:11 · Ezek 33:28 · Ezek 35:3 · Ezek 35:9

8I will fill its mountains with its slain. The slain with the sword will fall in your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses.Cross-references: Isa 34:2 · Ezek 31:12 · Ezek 32:4 · Ezek 39:4

9I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.Cross-references: Jer 49:13 · Jer 49:17 · Ezek 6:7 · Ezek 7:4 · Ezek 7:9 · Ezek 25:13 · +4 more

10“‘“Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two countries will be mine, and we will possess it,’ although Yahweh was there,Cross-references: Ps 48:1 · Ps 76:1 · Ps 83:4 · Ps 132:13 · Isa 12:6 · Isa 31:9 · +7 more

11therefore, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them when I judge you.Cross-references: Ps 9:16 · Ps 73:17 · Ps 137:7 · Ezek 25:14 · Amos 1:11 · Matt 7:2 · +1 more

12You will know that I, Yahweh, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They have been laid desolate. They have been given to us to devour.’Cross-references: Ps 83:12 · Ps 94:9 · Jer 50:7 · Ezek 6:7 · Ezek 35:9 · Ezek 36:2

13You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me. I have heard it.”Cross-references: Ex 16:12 · Num 14:27 · 1Sam 2:3 · 2Ki 19:28 · 2Chr 32:15 · 2Chr 32:19 · +16 more

14The Lord Yahweh says: “When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.Cross-references: Isa 14:7 · Isa 65:13 · Jer 51:48

15As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’”Cross-references: Ps 137:7 · Prov 17:5 · Isa 34:5 · Jer 50:11 · Lam 4:21 · Ezek 35:3 · +6 more