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“You were Israel's constant enemy and let her people be slaughtered in the time of her disaster, the time of final punishment for her sins. So then—as surely as I, the Sovereign Lord, am the living God—death is your fate, and you cannot escape it. You are guilty of[a] murder, and murder will follow you. I will make the hill country of Edom a wasteland and kill everyone who travels through it.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 35:6 One ancient translation are guilty of; Hebrew hate.

“‘Because you harbored an ancient hostility and delivered the Israelites over to the sword(A) at the time of their calamity,(B) the time their punishment reached its climax,(C) therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I will give you over to bloodshed(D) and it will pursue you.(E) Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you. I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste(F) and cut off from it all who come and go.(G)

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