Ezekiel 35:3 - Exposition

Behold, O Mount Seir, I am against thee (cf. Ezekiel 5:8 ; Ezekiel 13:8 ; and contrast Ezekiel 36:9 ), and I will stretch out mine hand against thee (cf. Ezekiel 6:14 ; Ezekiel 14:9 , Ezekiel 14:13 ; Ezekiel 25:7 , 19; and Exodus 7:5 ), and I will make thee most desolate; literally, a desolation and an astonishment (cf. Ezekiel 35:7 ). Against the mountains of Israel had been denounced a similar fate, which the idolatrous remnant that lingered in the laud after the Captivity had commenced began to experience ( Ezekiel 33:28 , Ezekiel 33:29 ). The doom, however, connected with the day of Israel's return was to fall upon Edom, whose cities should be emptied of their inhabitants and whose fields should be cursed with barrenness ( Ezekiel 25:13 ; Obadiah 1:8 , Obadiah 1:10 ).