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“Because of your undying hatred, you kept on making the Israelis experience abuse[a] during the time of their calamity, even when they were in their final stages[b] of punishment, therefore as I’m alive and living,” declares the Lord God, “I’m turning you over to bloodshed,[c] and bloodshed will certainly overtake you, since you never have hated shedding blood. That’s why bloodshed will certainly pursue you. I’m turning Mount Seir over to ruin and desolation. I’m going to eliminate everyone who comes and goes,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 35:5 Lit. to the hand of the sword
  2. Ezekiel 35:5 Lit. time
  3. Ezekiel 35:6 The Heb. word blood sounds like Edom, the territory south of the Dead Sea in which Mt. Seir, the modern Jebel esh-sherá, is located

“‘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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