Paul Kretzmann Commentary - Ezekiel 35:1 - 35:9

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Paul Kretzmann Commentary - Ezekiel 35:1 - 35:9


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Against the Enmity of Edom

v. 1. Moreover, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

v. 2. Son of man, set thy face against Mount Seir,
this mountain range with its valleys, extending southward from the Dead Sea, being the home of the descendants of Esau, or Edom, and prophesy against it,

v. 3. and say unto it, Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, O Mount Seir,
the entire country of Idumea, Gen_36:9, I am against thee, and I will stretch out Mine hand against thee, in an act of punishment, and I will make thee most desolate, literally, "desolation and desolation," that is, an utter waste.

v. 4. I will lay thy cities waste,
so that they would be heaps of ruins, and thou shalt be desolate, a dreary desert waste, and thou shalt know, by the evidence thus given, that I am the Lord.

v. 5. Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred,
a lasting enmity, even from the time of Esau, Gen_25:22 ff; Gen_27:37, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, literally, "and hast delivered the sons of Israel to the hands of the sword at the time of trouble," in the time that their iniquity had an end, literally, "at the time of the guilt of the end," namely, at the time of the Chaldean conquest of Judah, when the Edomites gave particular evidence of the fact that their hostility was as severe as ever:

v. 6. therefore, as I live, saith the Lord God, I will prepare thee unto blood,
so that Edom, as it were, would be dissolved in blood, and blood shall pursue thee, slaughter following after the inhabitants of Idumea, no matter where they would go; sith (since) thou hast not hated blood, had not been found shrinking back from bloodshed upon all occasions, even blood shall pursue thee. The measure which Edom had meted unto others would be meted to his own country.

v. 7. Thus will I make Mount Seir most desolate,
an utter waste and desert, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth, so that traffic would no longer be carried on, no caravans passing across the country from Southern Arabia to Egypt.

v. 8. And I will fill his mountains with his slain men,
in an act of slaughter which would wipe out the nation; in thy hills and in thy valleys and in all thy rivers shall they fall that are slain with the sword, the war consuming them without mercy.

v. 9. I will make thee perpetual desolations,
a permanent desert waste, and thy cities shall not return, not be restored to their former power and be inhabited again; and ye shall know that I am the Lord. Idumea lies prostrate and deserted to this day, a lasting memorial of the Lord's punitive anger when He carries out his judgments in righteousness.