Ezekiel 35:14

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: According to the rejoicing of the whole land, A desolation I make of thee.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.

In Context

13And ye magnify yourselves against Me with your mouth, And have made abundant against Me your words, I — I have heard.

15According to thy joy at the inheritance of the house of Israel because of desolation, So I do to thee — a desolation thou art, O mount Seir, and all Edom — all of it, And they have known that I [am] Jehovah!

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Cross References

Isaiah 14:7At rest — quiet hath been all the earth, They have broken forth [into] singing.

Jeremiah 51:48And cried aloud against Babylon Have heavens and earth, and all that [is] in them, For, from the north come to it do the spoilers, An affirmation of Jehovah.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 35:11-15

The Fall of Edom. ( b. c. 587.) 10 Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the Lord was there: 11 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord God , I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee. 12 And thou shalt know that I am the Lord , and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against… Read the whole commentary →

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