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Ezekiel 35

Ezekiel 35 Summary, Context, and Full Chapter

Ezekiel 35 gives a direct prophecy against Mount Seir and Edom. It explains that long-held hatred, violent actions, and arrogant claims against Israel will not go unanswered. The chapter stresses that the LORD has heard every word and will make his justice known.

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What happens in Ezekiel 35?

The word of the LORD comes to Ezekiel with a message against Mount Seir. God declares opposition to Edom because of its ancient hostility toward Israel, its support of Israel's downfall, and its desire to claim Israel's land. The chapter repeats that the region will become desolate, its cities ruined, and its people cut off. Bloodshed will come back upon them, and their boastful words will be answered by judgment. The repeated result is that they will know the LORD through his righteous action.

This chapter follows Ezekiel 34, where God promised care for his scattered people and judgment on false shepherds. Ezekiel 35 turns from Israel's leaders to a neighboring nation that opposed Israel during its crisis. It prepares for Ezekiel 36, where the focus shifts toward restoration and hope for Israel.

Themes to notice

  • Divine JudgmentGod announces a careful and certain response to violence, pride, and hostility.
  • Hatred and BoastingThe chapter condemns long-standing resentment and arrogant words spoken against God's people.
  • God Makes Himself KnownThe judgment on Edom is meant to show that the LORD sees, hears, and acts justly.

Questions for Ezekiel 35

  • What sins does God name as the reason for judgment on Mount Seir?
  • How does the chapter connect Edom's treatment of Israel with its own future?
  • What does this passage show about how God responds to violence and proud speech?

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Ezekiel 35

A Prophecy against Mount Seir

1Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,2“Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it,

3and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says:

Behold, I am against you,

O Mount Seir.

I will stretch out My hand against you

and make you a desolate waste.

4I will turn your cities into ruins,

and you will become a desolation.

Then you will know that I am the LORD.

5Because you harbored an ancient hatred and delivered the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their disaster at the final stage of their punishment,6therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, it will pursue you.7I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.8I will fill its mountains with the slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines.9I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

10Because you have said, ‘These two nations and countries will be ours, and we will possess them,’ even though the LORD was there,11therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will treat you according to the anger and jealousy you showed in your hatred against them, and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.12Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard every contemptuous word you uttered against the mountains of Israel when you said, ‘They are desolate; they are given to us to devour!’13You boasted against Me with your mouth and multiplied your words against Me. I heard it Myself!14This is what the Lord GOD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.15As you rejoiced when the inheritance of the house of Israel became desolate, so will I do to you. You will become a desolation, O Mount Seir, and so will all of Edom. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

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