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Dawn in Edom: a deep rose-red sandstone ravine with a dry streambed along its floor and sheer cliffs on both sides, a pale empty sky above.

A new heart

Ezekiel 35

Edom moved onto Judah’s empty hills and laughed. What old grudge are you still carrying?

15 verses≈ 3 minBSB

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Where we are

  1. 1–3Visions of gloryBy the Kebar, about 593 BC: the throne, the scroll, the watchman
  2. 4–7Signs of the siegeA brick, a ration, a razor: the end has come
  3. 8–11The glory departsAbout 592 BC: the temple’s abominations, the mark, the glory goes east
  4. 12–15False hopesExile acted out, false prophets, a useless vine
  5. 16–19Parables and lamentsAn unfaithful bride, two eagles, the one who sins
  6. 20–24The sword drawnRebellion retold; the siege begins, about 588 BC
  7. 25–32The nations judgedAmmon to Egypt: the LORD is Judge of all the earth
  8. 33–36A new heartThe city falls; the Good Shepherd; cleansed and made newChapter 35
  9. 37–39Dry bones liveOne people raised up, and Gog of Magog defeated
  10. 40–48The LORD is thereAbout 573 BC: the new temple, the river, the land

A Prophecy against Mount Seir

God
Evening in Edom: a high rock fortress town on a red crag above deep ravines, its wall top flat and level, a few Edomite herdsmen small on the path below.

Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it, and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says:

Behold, I am against you,

O Mount Seir.

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God

I will stretch out My hand against you

and make you a desolate waste.

I will turn your cities into ruins,

and you will become a desolation.

Then you will know that I am the LORD.

God

Because 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, therefore 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.

God
Hot noon in Edom: the old trade road winds through a red sandstone ravine, empty in both directions, past a ruined roadside watch post, sand blowing into old ruts.

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

God

I 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.

God
An abandoned fortress of red stone on a ridge in Edom, its plain square towers and walls overgrown with thistles, thorns and briers, no one there.

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

Question

Quick question

Think about why the LORD set His face against Mount Seir.

What had Edom carried against Israel for generations?

God
Late afternoon in the Judean hills: empty terraced slopes with tumbling walls, a ruined village on a ridge, and far off a few Edomite herdsmen driving goats onto the slopes.

Because you have said, ‘These two nations and countries will be ours, and we will possess them,’ even though the LORD was there, therefore 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.

God

Then 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!’

God

You boasted against Me with your mouth and multiplied your words against Me. I heard it Myself!

Ezekiel 35:13

Pray

Pray

Lord, You hear every word I speak, even the ones I think no one notices. Take the old hatred out of my heart, and set a guard over my mouth. Amen.

God
Dusk in Edom: red ravines and an empty ruined town on a crag, its gate standing open, wind lifting sand, a calm darkening empty sky above.

This is what the Lord GOD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate. As 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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You boasted against Me with your mouth and multiplied your words against Me. I heard it Myself!

Ezekiel 35:13

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