The Bible: Ezekiel Chapter 35: with Audio and Commentary.

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Ezekiel Chapter 35

1 Moreover the LORD's word came to me, saying,

2 "Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

3 and tell it, 'The Lord GOD 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.

4 I will lay your cities waste, and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

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;

6 therefore, as I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will prepare you for blood, and blood will pursue you. Since you have not hated blood, therefore blood will pursue you.

7 Thus I will make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation. I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns.

8 I 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.

9 I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

10 " ' "Because you have said, 'These two nations and these two countries will be mine, and we will possess it;' whereas the LORD was there:

11 therefore, as I live," says the Lord GOD, "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 amongst them when I judge you.

12 You will know that I, the LORD, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, 'They have been laid desolate. They have been given us to devour.'

13 You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me. I have heard it."

14 The Lord GOD says: "When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

15 As 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 the LORD.' "

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Ezekiel Chapter 35 Guide

The prophet next described the new order by contrasting Mount Seir with the mountains of Israel. Jehovah announced Himself as against Mount Seir, and as stretching out His hand in order to make it a desolation and an astonishment. The sin of Mount Seir had been perpetual and persistent enmity to the children of Israel, and that even in the time of their calamity. Therefore its judgment would be perpetual desolation. Mount Seir had lusted to possess the lands of Israel and Judah. And because of their envy judgment would fall on them and they would be dispossessed of their own lands, and be made desolate.

From "An Exposition of the Whole Bible" by G. Campbell Morgan.


Ezekiel Chapter 35 Commentary

Chapter Outline

  1. A prophecy against Edom.

Verses 1-9

All who have God against them, have the word of God against them. Those that have a constant hatred to God and his people, as the carnal mind has, can only expect to be made desolate for ever.

Verses 10-15

When we see the vanity of the world in the disappointments, losses, and crosses, which others meet with, instead of showing ourselves greedy of worldly things, we should sit more loose to them. In the multitude of words, not one is unknown to God; not the most idle word; and the most daring is not above his rebuke. In the destruction of the enemies of the church, God designs his own glory; and we may be sure that he will not come short of his design. And when the fulness of the Jews and Gentiles shall come into the church, all antichristian opposers shall be destroyed.

From the "Concise Commentary on the Bible" by Matthew Henry.