Ezekiel 35:7

And I have given mount Seir for a desolation and an astonishment, And have cut off from it him who is passing over and him who is returning,

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.

In Context

6Therefore, I live — an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Surely for blood I do appoint thee, And blood doth pursue thee, If blood thou hast not hated, Blood also doth pursue thee.

8And filled his mountains with his wounded, Thy hills, and thy valleys, and all thy streams, The pierced of the sword fall into them.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 15:5and in those times there is no peace to him who is going out, and to him who is coming in, for many troubles [are] on all the inhabitants of the lands,

Ezekiel 33:28And I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment, And ceased hath the excellency of its strength, And desolated have been mountains of Israel, Without any one passing through.

Ezekiel 35:9Desolations age-during I make thee, And thy cities do not return, And ye have known that I [am] Jehovah.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 35:2-10

The Fall of Edom. ( b. c. 587.) 1 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it, 3 And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate. 4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord . 5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of… Read the whole commentary →

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