Ezekiel 35:2

Young's Literal Translation

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

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,

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,

Contextual Overview

¹ And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying: ² `Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it, ³ and thou hast said to it: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I [am] against thee, O mount Seir, And have stretched out My hand against thee, And made thee a desolation and an astonishment. ⁴ Thy cities a waste I make, and thou art a desolation, And thou hast known that I [am] Jehovah. ⁵ Because of thy having an enmity age-during, And thou dost saw the sons of Israel, By the hands of the sword, In the time of their calamity, In the time of the iniquity of the end: ⁶ Therefore, I live -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Surely for blood I do appoint thee, And blood doth pursue thee, If blood thou hast not hated, Blood also doth pursue thee. ⁷ And I have given mount Seir for a desolation and an astonishment, And have cut off from it him who is passing over and him who is returning, ⁸ And filled his mountains with his wounded, Thy hills, and thy valleys, and all thy streams, The pierced of the sword fall into them. ⁹ Desolations age-during I make thee, And thy cities do not return, And ye have known 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, that he commandeth his children, and his house after him (and they have kept the way of Jehovah), to do righteousness and judgment, that Jehovah may bring on Abraham that which He hath spoken concerning him.'

Genesis 31:19
And Laban hath gone to shear his flock, and Rachel stealeth the teraphim which her father hath;

Genesis 31:34
And Rachel hath taken the teraphim, and putteth them in the furniture of the camel, and sitteth upon them; and Laban feeleth all the tent, and hath not found;

Genesis 34:2
and Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, a prince of the land, seeth her, and taketh her, and lieth with her, and humbleth her;

Genesis 35:1
And God saith unto Jacob, `Rise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared unto thee in thy fleeing from the face of Esau thy brother.'

Genesis 35:2
And Jacob saith unto his household, and unto all who [are] with him, `Turn aside the gods of the stranger which [are] in your midst, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments;

Genesis 35:3
and we rise, and go up to Bethel, and I make there an altar to God, who is answering me in the day of my distress, and is with me in the way that I have gone.'

Genesis 35:4
And they give unto Jacob all the gods of the stranger that [are] in their hand, and the rings that [are] in their ears, and Jacob hideth them under the oak which [is] by Shechem;

Genesis 35:7
and he buildeth there an altar, and proclaimeth at the place the God of Bethel: for there had God been revealed unto him, in his fleeing from the face of his brother.

Genesis 35:10
and God saith to him, `Thy name [is] Jacob: thy name is no more called Jacob, but Israel is thy name;' and He calleth 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.