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Green's Literal Translation

Ezekiel 35:2

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Thompson Chain Reference - Mountains;   Seir, Mount;   The Topic Concordance - Desolation;   Enemies;   Hate;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Edomites, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Sela;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Edom;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Seir, Mount;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ezekiel;   Obadiah, Book of;  

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,
Contemporary English Version
Ezekiel, son of man, condemn the people of Edom
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,
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 And the Word of Jehovah was to me, saying, 2 Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it. 3 And say to it, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch My hand against you, and I will make you a ruin and a waste. 4 I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be a ruin. And they shall know that I am Jehovah. 5 Because there was to you never-ending enmity, and you poured out the sons of Israel to the hands of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end. 6 Therefore, As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, surely for blood I appoint you, and blood shall pursue you. Since you have not hated blood, so blood shall pursue you. 7 And I will make Mount Seir a ruin and a waste, and cut off from it the one passing through, and the one returning. 8 And I will fill his mountains with his slain. In your hills and in your valleys, and in all your torrents, the slain by the sword shall fall in them. 9 I will make you ruins forever, and your cities shall not be inhabited. And you shall know that I am Jehovah.

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
For I have known him, so that whatever he may command his sons and his house after him, even they may keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice; to the intent that Jehovah may bring on Abraham that which He has spoken of him.
Genesis 31:19
And Laban went to shear his sheep. And Rachel stole the household idols which were her father's.
Genesis 31:34
And Rachel had taken the household idols and put them into the camel's saddle; and she sat on them. And Laban felt around all the tent, but did not find.
Genesis 34:2
And Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, and took her, and lay with her, and humbled her.
Genesis 35:1
And God said to Jacob, Rise up, go to Bethel and live there. And make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled before your brother Esau.
Genesis 35:2
And Jacob said to his house, and to all those with him, Put away the strange gods in your midst, and purify yourselves, and change your clothing.
Genesis 35:3
And let us rise up and go up to Bethel. And I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress. And He was with me in the way in which I went.
Genesis 35:4
And they gave all the strange gods in their hand to Jacob, and the earrings which were in their ears. And Jacob hid them under the oak which was near Shechem.
Genesis 35:7
And he built an altar there and called the place Elbethel; because God revealed Himself to him there when he fled from the face of his brother.
Genesis 35:10
And God said to him, Your name is Jacob; your name will not any more be called Jacob, but Israel will be your name. And He called his name Israel.

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.


 
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