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Ezekiel 35:9 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

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

Ezekiel 35:9

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7 Thus I will make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation. I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns.

8 I will fill its mountains with its slain. The slain with the sword will fall in your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses.

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

10 “‘“Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two countries will be mine, and we will possess it,’ although the LORD was there,

11 therefore, as I live,” says the Lord GOD, “I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them when I judge you.

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From This Chapter

Ezekiel 35:1

"Moreover the LORD’s word came to me, saying,"

Ezekiel 35:2

"“Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,"

Ezekiel 35:3

"and tell it, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you. I will make you a desolation and an astonishment."

Ezekiel 35:4

"I will lay your cities waste, and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD."

Ezekiel 35:5

"“‘“Because you have had a perpetual hostility, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end,"

Ezekiel 35:6

"therefore, as I live,” says the Lord GOD, “I will prepare you for blood, and blood will pursue you. Since you have not hated blood, therefore blood will pursue you."

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