Ezekiel 35

²¹For no such prophecy was ever brought forth by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

¹And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

¹Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

¹Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

³Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

²“Son of man, set your face against the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them.

⁸This is what the Lord God says: ‘Because Moab and Seir said, “Look, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,”

¹¹This is what the Lord says: “For three transgressions of Edom, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and stifled all compassion; his anger raged continually, and his fury flamed incessantly.

¹²So I will send fire upon Teman to consume the citadels of Bozrah.”

²“Son of man, set your face against Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuaries. Prophesy against the land of Israel

²“Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites and prophesy against them.

¹²Their houses will be turned over to others, their fields and wives as well, for I will stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land,” declares the Lord.

⁶You have forsaken Me, declares the Lord. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you; I am weary of showing compassion.

¹⁴I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’”

⁷I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.

¹⁵So you will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror to the nations around you, when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and raging fury. I, the Lord, have spoken.

³and tell her that this is what the Lord says: ‘I am against you, and I will draw My sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.

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

³but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”

⁴Though Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the Lord of Hosts says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, and a people with whom the Lord is indignant forever.

⁴And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart so that he will pursue them. But I will gain honor by means of Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord.” So this is what the Israelites did.

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!’

¹⁹Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.

¹⁴Otherwise, I will send all My plagues against you and your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth.

⁷Remember, O Lord, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”

¹⁰Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.

¹¹On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gate and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them.

¹¹This is what the Lord says: “For three transgressions of Edom, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and stifled all compassion; his anger raged continually, and his fury flamed incessantly.

¹²This is what the Lord God says: ‘Because Edom acted vengefully against the house of Judah, and in so doing incurred grievous guilt,

²⁵And you, O profane and wicked prince of Israel, the day has come for your final punishment.’

²⁹while they offer false visions for you and lying divinations about you—to be placed on the necks of the wicked who are slain, whose day has come, the time of their final punishment.

²Why are Your clothes red, and Your garments like one who treads the winepress?

³“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.

¹⁵For the Day of the Lord is near for all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your recompense will return upon your own head.

²⁴And there was found in her the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who had been slain on the earth.

⁶Give back to her as she has done to others; pay her back double for what she has done; mix her a double portion in her own cup.

²For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

⁵And I heard the angel of the waters say: “Righteous are You, O Holy One, who is and was, because You have brought these judgments.

⁶For they have spilled the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink, as they deserve.”

¹¹No foot of man or beast will pass through, and it will be uninhabited for forty years.

⁶In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were deserted and the travelers took the byways.

⁷Life in the villages ceased; it ended in Israel, until I, Deborah, arose, a mother in Israel.

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.

⁵In those days there was no safety for travelers, because the residents of the lands had many conflicts.

⁶Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God afflicted them with all kinds of adversity.

²⁸I will make the land a desolate waste, and the pride of her strength will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will become desolate, so that no one will pass through.

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

¹²Foreigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. And all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.

⁴I will abandon you on the land and hurl you into the open field. I will cause all the birds of the air to settle upon you, and all the beasts of the earth to eat their fill of you.

⁵I will put your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with your remains.

⁴On the mountains of Israel you will fall—you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to every kind of ravenous bird and wild beast.

⁵You will fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Lord God.

²The Lord is angry with all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will devote them to destruction; He will give them over to slaughter.

³Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.

¹³therefore this is what the Lord God says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.

⁷The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the Lord.

³but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”

⁴Though Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the Lord of Hosts says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, and a people with whom the Lord is indignant forever.

⁴I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

⁴I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’

¹⁷“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.

¹⁸As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors,” says the Lord, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.

⁵Therefore this is what the Lord God says: Surely in My burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who took My land as their own possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, so that its pastureland became plunder.

³⁵The perimeter of the city will be 18,000 cubits, and from that day on the name of the city will be: THE Lord IS THERE.”

⁴saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

⁵For with one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against You—

²This is what the Lord God says: Because the enemy has said of you, ‘Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession,’

¹A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain.

²Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.

¹³You should not enter the gate of My people in the day of their disaster, nor gloat over their affliction in the day of their disaster, nor loot their wealth in the day of their disaster.

²For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

¹⁶The Lord is known by the justice He brings; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion Selah

¹⁷until I entered God’s sanctuary; then I discerned their end.

¹⁸Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.

⁷Remember, O Lord, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”

¹¹This is what the Lord says: “For three transgressions of Edom, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and stifled all compassion; his anger raged continually, and his fury flamed incessantly.

¹³For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

²This is what the Lord God says: Because the enemy has said of you, ‘Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession,’

¹²who said, “Let us possess for ourselves the pastures of God.”

⁷All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the Lord, their true pasture, the Lord, the hope of their fathers.’

⁷The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the Lord.

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

⁹He who affixed the ear, can He not hear? He who formed the eye, can He not see?

¹⁰He who admonishes the nations, does He not discipline? He who teaches man, does He lack knowledge?

³⁶Then the king will do as he pleases and will exalt and magnify himself above every god, and he will speak monstrous things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been decreed must be accomplished.

²³For they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with the wives of their neighbors and speaking lies in My name, which I did not command them to do. I am He who knows, and I am a witness, declares the Lord.”

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!’

³Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the Lord is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed.

²⁰Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the Lord deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”

¹³For he says: ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, for I am clever. I have removed the boundaries of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their rulers.

¹⁴My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped.’”

⁴⁸Then heaven and earth and all that is in them will shout for joy over Babylon because the destroyers from the north will come against her,” declares the Lord.

⁷All the earth is at peace and at rest; they break out in song.

⁸Even the cypresses and cedars of Lebanon exult over you: “Since you have been laid low, no woodcutter comes against us.”

¹³Therefore this is what the Lord God says: “My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; My servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.

¹⁴My servants will shout for joy with a glad heart, but you will cry out with a heavy heart and wail with a broken spirit.

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.

⁵When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.

⁶The sword of the Lord is bathed in blood. It drips with fat—with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

²¹So rejoice and be glad, O Daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz. Yet the cup will pass to you as well; you will get drunk and expose yourself.

¹²But you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress.

⁷Remember, O Lord, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”

¹⁵For the Day of the Lord is near for all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your recompense will return upon your own head.