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The American Standard Version of 1901

Ezekiel 35

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Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

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Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

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and say unto it, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, O mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against thee, and I will make thee a desolation and an astonishment.

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I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.

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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 1 iniquity of the end; 1) Or punishment

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therefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: since thou hast not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue thee.

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Thus will I make mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation; and I will cut off from it him that passeth through and him that returneth.

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And I will fill its mountains with its slain: in thy hills and in thy valleys and in all thy watercourses shall they fall that are slain with the sword.

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I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall not 1 be inhabited; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah. 1) Another reading is return

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Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; 1 whereas Jehovah was there: 1) Or though

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therefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast showed out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, 1 when I shall judge thee. 1) Or according as

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And thou shalt know 1 that I, Jehovah, have heard all thy revilings which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, 2 They are laid desolate, they are given us to devour. 1) Or that I am Jehovah; I have heard etc 2) Or It is

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And ye have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard it.

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Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.

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As thou didst rejoice over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.



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