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Thursday, April 27, 2017

Edom Is Doomed For Destruction




Ezekiel 35:1-15 NIV






A Prophecy Against Edom





1The WORD of The LORD Came To me: 


 2“Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir; prophesy against it 


3and say: 

‘This Is What The SOVEREIGN LORD Says:



I AM Against you, Mount Seir, and I Will Stretch Out MY Hand Against you and Make you a desolate waste. 4I Will Turn your towns into ruins and you will be desolate. 







Then you will know that 

I AM The LORD.


5“ ‘Because you harbored an ancient hostility and delivered the Israelites over to the sword at the time of their calamity, the time their punishment reached its climax, 6Therefore As Surely As I Live, 


Declares The SOVEREIGN LORD, 


I Will Give you Over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you. 7I Will Make Mount Seir a desolate waste and Cut Off from it all who come and go. 8I Will Fill your mountains with the slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines. 9I Will Make you desolate forever; your towns will not be inhabited.


Then you will know that 

I AM The LORD.



10“ ‘Because you have said, 


“These two nations and countries will be ours and we will take possession of them,” 


Even though I The LORD Was There,  



11Therefore As Surely As I Live, 


Declares The SOVEREIGN LORD,



I Will Treat you in accordance with the anger and jealousy you showed in your hatred of them and I Will Make MYSELF Known among them When I Judge you. 12 Then you will know that I The LORD Have Heard all the contemptible things you have said against the mountains of Israel. You said, “They have been laid waste and have been given over to us to devour.” 



13You boasted against ME and spoke against ME without restraint, 




And I Heard it.



14This Is What The SOVEREIGN LORD Says:



While the whole earth rejoices, I Will Make you desolate. 15Because you rejoiced when the inheritance of Israel became desolate, that is how I Will Treat you. You will be desolate, Mount Seir, you and all of Edom. 






Then they will know that 

I AM The LORD.
















The prophet having formerly predicted the ruin of Edom, the same with Seir (Ezekiel 25:12), now resumes and pursues the subject at greater length, intimating, as did also Isaiah, (Isaiah 21:11Isaiah 21:12), that though other nations should recover their liberty after the fall of the Babylonian monarchy, the Edomites should continue in bondage for their very despiteful behavior towards the children of Israel in the day of their calamity, Ezekiel 35:1-15.








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