וַיְהִי דְבַר־יְהוָה אֵלַי לֵאמֹר׃   35:1

Ezek. 35:1   And the word of the Lord occurred to me saying,

בֶּן־אָדָם שִׂים פָּנֶיךָ עַל־הַר שֵׂעִיר וְהִנָּבֵא עָלָיו׃   35:2

Ezek. 35:2   “Human, set your face toward mount Seir and prophesy about it.”

Mount Seir is Edom, and the Edomites are the descendants of Esau (see Gene. 36:8).  Edom is considered Israel’s arch enemy because of the destructive competition between Esau and Jacob centuries earlier.

וְאָמַרְתָּ לֹּו כֹּה אָמַר אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה הִנְנִי אֵלֶיךָ הַר־שֵׂעִיר וְנָטִיתִי יָדִי עָלֶיךָ וּנְתַתִּיךָ שְׁמָמָה וּמְשַׁמָּה׃   35:3

Ezek. 35:3   “And you shall say to it, ‘Thus says the Master, the Lord:  Behold, I am against you, mount Seir, and will stretch forth My ‘hand’ over you and make you a desolation and a devastation.’

עָרֶיךָ חָרְבָּה אָשִׂים וְאַתָּה שְׁמָמָה תִהְיֶה וְיָדַעְתָּ כִּי־אֲנִי יְהוָה׃   35:4

Ezek. 35:4   ‘I shall make your cities a wasteland and you shall be desolate, and you shall know that I am the Lord.’

יַעַן הֱיֹות לְךָ אֵיבַת עֹולָם וַתַּגֵּר אֶת־בְּנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵל עַל־יְדֵי־חָרֶב בְּעֵת אֵידָם בְּעֵת עֲוֹן קֵץ׃   35:5

Ezek. 35:5   ‘Because of having your hatred of old and you thrust down the children of Israel upon the wielders of the sword in the time of their calamity, at the time of the end of iniquity,

Regarding the last phrase, see Ezek. 21:30.

לָכֵן חַי־אָנִי נְאֻם אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה כִּי־לְדָם אֶעֶשְׂךָ וְדָם יִרְדֲּפֶךָ אִם־לֹא דָם שָׂנֵאתָ וְדָם יִרְדֲּפֶךָ׃   35:6

Ezek. 35:6   for this, as I live, declares the Master, the Lord, I will prepare you only for blood that blood will pursue you.  Surely you hated the blood, so the blood shall pursue you.’

וְנָתַתִּי אֶת־הַר שֵׂעִיר לְשִׁמְמָה וּשְׁמָמָה וְהִכְרַתִּי מִמֶּנּוּ עֹבֵר וָשָׁב׃   35:7

Ezek. 35:7   ‘So I will make mount Seir for a desolation and a wasteland, and cut off anyone passing by of returning from it.’

וּמִלֵּאתִי אֶת־הָרָיו חֲלָלָיו גִּבְעֹותֶיךָ וְגֵאֹותֶיךָ וְכָל־אֲפִיקֶיךָ חַלְלֵי־חֶרֶב יִפְּלוּ בָהֶם׃   35:8

Ezek. 35:8   ‘And I will make its mountains full of its slain; your hills and your valleys and all your ravines -- the slain of the sword shall fall among them.’

שִׁמְמֹות עֹולָם אֶתֶּנְךָ וְעָרֶיךָ לֹא (תֵישַׁבְנָה) [תָשֹׁבְנָה] וִידַעְתֶּם כִּי־אֲנִי יְהוָה׃   35:9

Ezek. 35:9   ‘Wastelands forever I shall make you, that your cities shall not return, and you shall know that I the Lord.’

The word in the parentheses has an extra yad.  The correction is in the brackets.

יַעַן אֲמָרְךָ אֶת־שְׁנֵי הַגֹּויִם וְאֶת־שְׁתֵּי הָאֲרָצֹות לִי תִהְיֶינָה וִירַשְׁנוּהָ וַיהוָה שָׁם הָיָה׃   35:10

Ezek. 35:10   ‘Because of your saying, ‘The two nations and the two lands, they shall be mine, and we shall possess it, although the Lord is there,’

לָכֵן חַי־אָנִי נְאֻם אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה וְעָשִׂיתִי כְּאַפְּךָ וּכְקִנְאָתְךָ אֲשֶׁר עָשִׂיתָה מִשִּׂנְאָתֶיךָ בָּם וְנֹודַעְתִּי בָם   35:11      כַּאֲשֶׁר אֶשְׁפְּטֶךָ׃

Ezek. 35:11   therefore, As I live, declares the Master, the Lord, so I will do according to your anger and according to your envy that you used out of your hatred toward them, and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.’

נִתְּנוּ וְיָדַעְתָּ כִּי־אֲנִי יְהוָה שָׁמַעְתִּי אֶת־כָּל־נָאָצֹותֶיךָ אֲשֶׁר אָמַרְתָּ עַל־הָרֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל לֵאמֹר שָׁמֵמָה    35:12 לְאָכְלָה׃

Ezek. 35:12   ‘And you shall know that I, the Lord, hear all your blasphemies that you have spoken against the mountains of Israel saying, ‘It is a wasteland; they have been given to us for food.’

וַתַּגְדִּילוּ עָלַי בְּפִיכֶם וְהַעְתַּרְתֶּם עָלַי דִּבְרֵיכֶם אֲנִי שָׁמָעְתִּי׃   35:13

Ezek. 35:13   ‘So you have magnified yourselves over Me with your mouths as you have made your words abundant against Me -- I have heard.’

כֹּה אָמַר אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה כִּשְׂמֹחַ כָּל־הָאָרֶץ שְׁמָמָה אֶעֱשֶׂה־לָּךְ׃   35:14

Ezek. 35:14   ‘Thus says the Master, the Lord:  While the whole earth is rejoicing, I shall make a desolation in you.’

כְּשִׂמְחָתְךָ לְנַחְלַת בֵּית־יִשְׂרָאֵל עַל אֲשֶׁר־שָׁמֵמָה כֵּן אֶעֱשֶׂה־לָּךְ שְׁמָמָה תִהְיֶה הַר־שֵׂעִיר   35:15                 וְכָל־אֱדֹום כֻּלָּהּ וְיָדְעוּ כִּי־אֲנִי יְהוָה׃

Ezek. 35:15   ‘Like you rejoiced in the inheritance of the house of Israel, concerning when it was a desolation, so I shall do to you.  A desolation you shall be, mount Seir, together with all of Edom, all of it, and they shall know that I am the Lord.’”

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