Ezekiel 35:5

³ and 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.

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

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,

⁶ 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.

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

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: 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,
KJV: Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
WEB: “‘“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,
ASV: Because thou hast had a perpetual enmity, and hast 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;
DARBY: Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast 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;
BLB: Because there has been for you an ancient hatred and you have poured out the sons of Israel upon the hands of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of the iniquity of the end,

ÅB: Fordi du bærer på et evig fiendskap og overgav Israels barn i sverdets vold - i deres ulykkes tid, da den misgjerning skjedde som førte til undergang,
OTB: Fordi du har næret et gammelt fiendskap og overgitt Israels barn til sverdet på tiden for deres ulykke, når deres straff nådde sitt høydepunkt,
B1930: Fordi du bærer på et evig fiendskap og overgav Israels barn i sverdets vold - i deres ulykkes tid, da den misgjerning skjedde som førte til undergang,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Psalms 137:7
Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”
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Obadiah 1:10–16
Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.
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Amos 1:11
This 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.
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Ezekiel 25:12
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Edom acted vengefully against the house of Judah, and in so doing incurred grievous guilt,
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Ezekiel 21:25
And you, O profane and wicked prince of Israel, the day has come for your final punishment.’
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Ezekiel 21:29
while 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.
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Genesis 27:41–42
Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
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Ezekiel 25:15
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because the Philistines acted in vengeance, taking vengeance with malice of soul to destroy Judah with ancient hostility,
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