Ezekiel 35:2

Contemporary English Version

Ezekiel, son of man, condemn the people of Edom

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Son of man, face Mount Seir and prophesy against it.

Hebrew Names Version
Son of man, set your face against Mount Se`ir, and prophesy against it,

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

English Standard Version
"Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

New American Standard Bible
"Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it

New Century Version
"Human, look toward Edom and prophesy against it.

Amplified Bible
"Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir (Edom), and prophesy against it

Geneva Bible (1587)
Sonne of man, Set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesie against it,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it

Legacy Standard Bible
"Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it

Berean Standard Bible
"Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it,

Complete Jewish Bible
"Human being, turn your face against Mount Se‘ir; prophesy against it,

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

Easy-to-Read Version
"Son of man, look toward Mount Seir and speak against it for me.

George Lamsa Translation
Son of man, set your face against mount Seir and prophesy against it,

Good News Translation
"Mortal man," he said, "denounce the country of Edom.

Lexham English Bible
"Son of man, set your face against the mountain of Seir and prophesy against it,

Literal Translation
Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou sonne of man, turne thy face towarde the mount Seir, prophecy vpon it,

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

Bible in Basic English
Son of man, let your face be turned to Mount Seir, and be a prophet against it,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

King James Version (1611)
Sonne of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophecie against it,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou sonne of man, set thy face toward the mount Seir, prophecie against it.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

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

World English Bible
Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and he seide, Thou, sone of man, sette thi face ayens the hil of Seir; and thou schalt profesie to it, and thou schalt seie to it,

Update Bible Version
Son of man, set your face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

Webster's Bible Translation
Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

New English Translation
"Son of man, turn toward Mount Seir, and prophesy against it.

New King James Version
"Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it,

New Living Translation
"Son of man, turn and face Mount Seir, and prophesy against its people.

New Life Bible
"Son of man, look toward Mount Seir and speak against it,

New Revised Standard
Mortal, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Son of man Set thy face against Mount Seir, - and prophesy against it;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy concerning it, and say to it:

Revised Standard Version
"Son of man, set your face against Mount Se'ir, and prophesy against it,

Young's Literal Translation
`Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

Contextual Overview

¹ The Lord said: ² Ezekiel, son of man, condemn the people of Edom ³ and say to them: I, the Lord God, am now your enemy! And I will turn your nation into an empty wasteland, ⁴ leaving your towns in ruins. Your land will be a desert, and then you will know that I am the Lord . ⁵ People of Edom, not only have you been Israel's longtime enemy, you simply watched when disaster wiped out its people as punishment for their sins. ⁶ And so, as surely as I am the living Lord God, you are guilty of murder and must be put to death. ⁷ I will destroy your nation and kill anyone who travels through it. ⁸ Dead bodies will cover your mountains and fill up your valleys, ⁹ and your land will lie in ruins forever. No one will live in your towns ever again. You will know that I am the Lord .

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

set: Ezekiel 6:2, Ezekiel 20:46, Ezekiel 21:2, Ezekiel 25:2, Isaiah 50:7, Ephesians 6:19

mount: Ezekiel 25:8, Genesis 32:3, Genesis 36:8, Genesis 36:9, Deuteronomy 2:5, Joshua 24:4, 2 Chronicles 20:10, 2 Chronicles 20:22, 2 Chronicles 20:23, 2 Chronicles 25:11-14

and prophesy: Ezekiel 25:12-14, Ezekiel 32:29, Psalms 83:3-18, Isaiah 34:1-17, Isaiah 63:1-6, Jeremiah 9:25, Jeremiah 9:26, Jeremiah 49:7-22, Lamentations 4:21, Lamentations 4:22, Amos 1:11, Amos 1:12, Obadiah 1:1, Obadiah 1:10-14

Reciprocal: Genesis 33:14 - unto Seir Jeremiah 49:13 - a desolation Ezekiel 38:2 - set

Cross-References

Genesis 18:19
I have chosen him to teach his family to obey me forever and to do what is right and fair. Then I will give Abraham many descendants, just as I promised."

Genesis 31:19
Before Rachel left, she stole the household idols while Laban was out shearing his sheep.

Genesis 31:34
She had already hidden them in the cushion she used as a saddle and was sitting on it. Laban searched everywhere and did not find them.

Genesis 34:2
She was seen by Hamor's son Shechem, the leader of the Hivites, and he grabbed her and raped her.

Genesis 35:1
God told Jacob, "Return to Bethel, where I appeared to you when you were running from your brother Esau. Make your home there and build an altar for me."

Genesis 35:2
Jacob said to his family and to everyone else who was traveling with him: Get rid of your foreign gods! Then make yourselves acceptable to worship God and put on clean clothes.

Genesis 35:3
Afterwards, we'll go to Bethel. I will build an altar there for God, who answered my prayers when I was in trouble and who has always been at my side.

Genesis 35:4
So everyone gave Jacob their idols and their earrings, and he buried them under the oak tree near Shechem.

Genesis 35:7
Jacob built an altar there and called it "God of Bethel," because that was the place where God had appeared to him when he was running from Esau.

Genesis 35:12
I will give you the land that I promised Abraham and Isaac, and it will belong to your family forever.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Son of man set thy face against Mount Seir,.... Which had its name from Seir the Horite, who first possessed it; and was succeeded in it by Esau and his posterity, the Edomites; see Genesis 36:8 Deuteronomy 2:12, so that the country of Edom or Idumea is here intended, and the inhabitants of it; who are put for the enemies of the church and people of God in general, as these were the enemies of Israel and Judah; and particularly for Rome, which, as it was spiritually called Egypt and Sodom, so it may be called Edom, as it often is by the Jews: now the prophet is bid to turn his face towards this mountain or country, and look sternly at it, and severely threaten it. The Targum is,

"take up a prophecy against it;''

which is expressed in the next clause:

and prophesy against it; foretell things contrary to it, which relate to its destruction, as follows:

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 35:2. Set thy face against Mount Seir — That is, against the Edomites. This prophecy was probably delivered about the time of the preceding, and before the destruction of Idumea by Nebuchadnezzar, which took place about five years after.

Calmet supposes that two destructions of Idumea are here foretold; one by Nebuchadnezzar, and the other by the Jews after their return from their captivity.