Ezekiel 35 Cross References - NSB

¹ The word of Jehovah continued to come to me: ² »Son of man, set your face (commit yourself) against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it. ³ »Say this, ‘the Lord Jehovah says: »I am against you, Mount Seir! I will stretch out my hand (exert my power) against you and make you a desolation and a waste. ⁴ »‘»I will lay waste your cities and you will become desolated. Then you will know that I am Jehovah. ⁵ »‘»Because you have had everlasting enmity and have delivered the sons of Israel to the power of the sword (to die by warfare) at the time of their calamity, at the time of the punishment of the end.«’ ⁶ »‘Therefore as I live, declares the Lord Jehovah: I will give you over to bloodshed (death), and bloodshed (death) will pursue you. Since you have not hated bloodshed, therefore bloodshed will pursue you. ⁷ »‘I will make Mount Seir a waste and desolation. I will cut off from it the one who passes through and returns. ⁸ »‘I will fill its mountains with those who have been killed. Those killed by the sword will fall on your hills and in your valleys and ravines. ⁹ »‘I will make you an everlasting desolation! Your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am Jehovah!’ ¹⁰ »For the reason that you have said: ‘These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we will possess them,’ although Jehovah was there. ¹¹ ‘Therefore as I live,’ declares the Lord Jehovah, ‘I will deal with you according to your anger and according to your envy, what you showed because of your hatred against them. I will make myself known among them when I judge you. ¹² »‘Then you will know that I, Jehovah, have heard all your insults you have spoken against the mountains of Israel. You said: ‘They are laid desolate. They are given to us for food.’ ¹³ »‘You have spoken arrogantly against me and have continuously spoken against me. And I have heard it!’ ¹⁴ »The Lord Jehovah says: ‘As all the earth rejoices, I will make you desolated. ¹⁵ »As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be desolated, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am Jehovah.’«

⁴¹ So Esau bore a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. Esau said to himself: »The days of mourning for my father are near. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.« ⁴² When Rebekah heard about Esau’s plans to kill Jacob, she called her younger son, Jacob. She said: »Your brother Esau is comforting himself by planning to kill you.

³ Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in Seir, the country of Edom.

⁸ So Esau dwelt in Mount Seir. Esau is Edom. ⁹ This is the genealogy of Esau the father of the Edomites in Mount Seir.

¹⁴ »If you do not, he will send his worst plagues to strike you, your officials, and everyone else in your country. Then you will find out that no one can oppose Jehovah.

⁴ »I will make him stubborn. He will pursue you. My victory over the king and his army will bring me honor. Then the Egyptians will know that I am Jehovah!« The Israelites did as they were told.

¹² »I have heard my people complain. I said to them: ‘Each evening you will have meat and each morning they will have more than enough bread.’ Then you will know that I am Jehovah their God.’«

⁵ »‘Do not start a fight with them, because I am not giving you any of their land, not so much as one foot. I gave Esau's descendants the region of Mount Seir as their property.

²⁷ »How long must I put up with this wicked congregation that keeps complaining about me? I have heard the complaints the Israelites are making about me.

⁴ and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau the hill country of Edom as his possession, but your ancestor Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.

⁶ »In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were deserted. Travelers used the back roads. ⁷ »The towns of Israel were abandoned. They stood empty until I Deborah came, came like a mother for Israel.

³ »Boast no more so proudly. Remove arrogance from your mouth. Jehovah is a God of knowledge, and he measures his actions (deeds).

²⁸ »Since you rage against me and you boast in my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your mouth. I will make you go back the way you came.

⁵ »No one could come and go in peace at that time. This is because everyone living in the land had a lot of turmoil. ⁶ »One nation crushed another nation. One city crushed another. God tormented them with every kind of trouble.

¹¹ Amaziah courageously led his troops. When he came to the Dead Sea region, he killed ten thousand men from Seir. ¹² The Judeans captured another ten thousand alive. They took them to the top of a cliff, and threw them off the top of the cliff so that they were dismembered. ¹³ The troops that Amaziah sent back so that they couldn’t go with him into battle raided the towns in Judah from Samaria to Beth Horon. They killed three thousand people and took a lot of goods. ¹⁴ After Amaziah came back from defeating the Edomites, he brought the gods of the people of Seir, set them up as his gods, bowed down to them, and burned sacrifices to them.

¹⁰ »You can see that the armies of Ammon, Moab, and Edom are attacking us! Those are the nations you would not let our ancestors invade on their way from Egypt. Consequently these nations were not destroyed.

²² As soon as they began singing, Jehovah confused the enemy camp, ²³ The Ammonite and Moabite troops attacked and completely destroyed those from Edom. Then they turned against each other and fought until the entire camp was wiped out!

¹⁵ »‘Do not be fooled by Hezekiah! No god of any nation has been able to stand up to Assyria. Believe me, your God cannot keep you safe!’«

¹⁹ They spoke against the God of Jerusalem as if he were one of the gods of the peoples of the earth, the work of the hands of man.

¹⁶ »Job opens his mouth in empty talk. He multiplies words without knowledge.«

¹⁶ Jehovah has revealed himself by his righteous judgments. The wicked are trapped by their deeds.

³⁷ »To his sins he adds rebellion and in front of us all he mocks God.

¹ ([Sons of Korah]) Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, his sacred mountain. ² His situation if beautiful. Mount Zion is the joy of the whole earth. The city of the great King is in the far reaches of the north. ³ God is in his citadel. He has made himself known.

⁸ They ridicule. They speak maliciously. They speak arrogantly about oppression. ⁹ They set their mouth in the heavens and their tongue parades through the earth.

¹⁷ I understood their end when I went into the sanctuary of God. ¹⁸ Surely you set them in slippery places. You threw them down into destruction.

¹ ([Psalm of Asaph]) God is known in Judah. His name is great in Israel.

⁹ God created ears. Do you think he cannot hear? He formed eyes. Do you think he cannot see? ¹⁰ He disciplines nations. Do you think he cannot punish? He teaches people. Do you think he does not know anything?

³ They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones. ⁴ They say: »Come and let us destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.«

⁴ They say: »Come and let us destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.« ⁵ For they have come to an agreement united in thought. They form an alliance against you.

⁵ For they have come to an agreement united in thought. They form an alliance against you. ⁶ The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;

⁶ The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites; ⁷ Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

⁷ Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; ⁸ Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot.

⁸ Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. ⁹ Do to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon

⁹ Do to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon ¹⁰ Who perished at Endor and became as dung for the earth.

¹⁰ Who perished at Endor and became as dung for the earth. ¹¹ Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna.

¹¹ Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna. ¹² For they said: »Let us take possession Of God's pasturelands.«

¹² For they said: »Let us take possession Of God's pasturelands.«

¹² For they said: »Let us take possession Of God's pasturelands.« ¹³ My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind. ¹⁴ Like the fire that consumes the forest, the flame that sets the mountains on fire, ¹⁵ pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm. ¹⁶ Fill their faces with confusion that they may seek your name, Jehovah. ¹⁷ Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish, ¹⁸ That they may know that you alone, whose name is Jehovah, are the Most High over all the earth.

¹⁶ for he did not remember to be kind. He drove oppressed, needy, and brokenhearted people to their graves. ¹⁷ He loved to put curses on others, so he, too, was cursed. He did not like to bless others, so he never received a blessing.

¹³ Jehovah has chosen Zion. He wants it for his home. ¹⁴ This will be my resting place forever. Here I will sit enthroned because I want Zion.

⁷ O Jehovah, remember the people of Edom. Remember what they did the day Jerusalem was captured. They said: »Tear it down! Tear it down to its foundation.«

⁵ When you mock the poor you disgrace your Maker. He who is glad at calamity will be punished.

¹⁴ A fool also is full of words. A man cannot predict what will be and what will be after him. Who can tell him?

⁶ »Shout aloud and sing for joy, people of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.«

⁷ »The whole earth rests and is quiet. It breaks out into shouts of joy. ⁸ »‘Even the cypress trees rejoice over you. The cedars of Lebanon say: ‘Since you have fallen, no lumberjack has come to attack us.’

⁹ »In terror they will run to their stronghold, and their officers will be frightened at the sight of the battle flag.« Jehovah declares this. His fire (light) is in Zion and his furnace is in Jerusalem.

¹³ »‘The king of Assyria says: By the strength of my hand I have done it. By my wisdom and understanding I have done it! I am prudent! Also I have removed the boundaries of the nations. I have robbed their treasuries. I have brought down people like a mighty man! ¹⁴ »‘I found the riches of nations as one finds a nest. I gathered the whole world as one gathers abandoned eggs. Not one of them flapped a wing, opened its mouth, or peeped.’« ¹⁵ Can an ax attack the person who cuts with it? Can a saw make itself greater than the person who saws with it? A rod cannot move the person who lifts it. A wooden stick cannot pick up a person. ¹⁶ That is why the Almighty Jehovah of Hosts will send a degenerative disease against brave men. A flame will be turned into a raging fire under his power. ¹⁷ The Light of Israel will become a fire and his Holy One a flame. It will burn and consume his thorns and his briers in a single day! ¹⁸ It will completely destroy the splendor of his forests and fertile fields, as when a sick man wastes away. ¹⁹ And the remaining trees of his forests will be so few that a child could write them down.

¹ Draw near, people of all nations! Gather around and listen. Let the whole earth and everyone living on it come here and pay attention. ² JEHOVAH IS ANGRY WITH ALL THE NATIONS. He is furious with all their armies. He has condemned them for destruction. He has handed them over to be slaughtered.

² JEHOVAH IS ANGRY WITH ALL THE NATIONS. He is furious with all their armies. He has condemned them for destruction. He has handed them over to be slaughtered. ³ Their dead bodies will be thrown out. A stench will rise from their corpses. The mountains will be laid waste with their blood.

³ Their dead bodies will be thrown out. A stench will rise from their corpses. The mountains will be laid waste with their blood. ⁴ All the stars in the sky will dissolve. The heavens will be rolled up like a scroll. The stars will fade away like leaves fall from a vine or fruit from a tree.

⁴ All the stars in the sky will dissolve. The heavens will be rolled up like a scroll. The stars will fade away like leaves fall from a vine or fruit from a tree. ⁵ My sword is covered with blood in the heavens. It will fall on EDOM and on the people I have claimed for destruction.

⁵ My sword is covered with blood in the heavens. It will fall on EDOM and on the people I have claimed for destruction.

⁵ My sword is covered with blood in the heavens. It will fall on EDOM and on the people I have claimed for destruction. ⁶ Jehovah’s sword is covered with blood. It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of rams' kidneys. Jehovah will receive a sacrifice in Bozrah, a huge slaughter in the land of Edom.

⁶ Jehovah’s sword is covered with blood. It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of rams' kidneys. Jehovah will receive a sacrifice in Bozrah, a huge slaughter in the land of Edom.

⁶ Jehovah’s sword is covered with blood. It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of rams' kidneys. Jehovah will receive a sacrifice in Bozrah, a huge slaughter in the land of Edom. ⁷ Wild oxen will be killed with them, young bulls along with rams. Their land will be drenched with blood. Their dust will be covered with fat.

⁷ Wild oxen will be killed with them, young bulls along with rams. Their land will be drenched with blood. Their dust will be covered with fat. ⁸ Jehovah will have a day of vengeance! He will have a year of retribution (recompense) in defense of Zion. ⁹ Edom's streams will be turned to tar. Its soil will be turned to burning sulfur. Its land will become blazing tar. ¹⁰ They will not be extinguished day or night, and smoke will always go up from them. Edom will lie in ruins for generations. No one will ever travel through it. ¹¹ Pelicans and herons will take possession of the land. Porcupines and crows will live there. He will stretch the measuring line of chaos and the plumb line of destruction over it. ¹² There are no nobles to rule a kingdom. All of its princes have disappeared. ¹³ Its palaces are covered with thorns. Its fortresses have nettles and thistles. It will become a home for jackals and a place for ostriches. ¹⁴ Hyenas will meet with jackals. Male goats will call to their mates. Screech owls will rest there and find a resting place for themselves. ¹⁵ Arrow snakes will make their nests there, lay eggs, and hatch them. They will gather their young under their shadow. Vultures also will gather there, each one with its mate. ¹⁶ Search Jehovah’s book and read it out loud. Not one of these animals will be missing. Not one will lack a mate, because Jehovah has commanded it, and his Spirit will gather them together. ¹⁷ He is the one who casts the lot for them, and his hand divides up the land for them with a measuring line. They will possess it permanently and live there for generations.

²⁰ »‘Did the gods of these countries indeed rescue them from my control? Could Jehovah then rescue Jerusalem from my control?’«

¹⁰ »Say to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you. He says to you: »Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.«

²³ »Who is it you have insulted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? It is against the Holy One of Israel!

²⁹ »For the reason that you rage against me and because your insolence (arrogance) has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth. I will make you return by the way you came.«

⁷ The Lord Jehovah helps me. That is why I will not be ashamed. I have set my face like a flint (firm and resolute). I know that I will not be put to shame.

¹³ Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah says: My servants will eat, but you will go hungry. My servants will drink, but you will go thirsty. My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame! ¹⁴ My servants will sing out of the joy of their hearts, but you will cry out from anguish of heart and wail in brokenness of spirit. ¹⁵ You will leave your name to my chosen ones as a curse. The Sovereign Lord Jehovah will put you to death, but to his servants he will give another name.

¹² »Their houses, their fields and their wives will be turned over to others. I will stretch out my hand (extend my power) against the inhabitants of the land,« declares Jehovah.

²⁵ »The days are coming,« proclaims Jehovah, »when I will punish all who are circumcised [only in the flesh]. Yet they are not circumcised [in the heart]. ²⁶ »I will punish Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, and Moab. I will punish all who shave the hair on their foreheads or live in the desert. Even though all these nations are uncircumcised, all Israel has uncircumcised hearts.«

¹ Who is this coming from Bozrah in Edom with his clothes stained bright red? Who is this dressed in splendor, going forward with great strength? It is I, Jehovah! I am coming to announce my victory. I am powerful enough to save you! ² Why are your clothes red and your garments like those who trample grapes in a winepress? ³ »I have trampled alone in the winepress. No one was with me. In my anger I trampled on people. In my wrath I stomped on them. Their blood splattered my clothes so all my clothing has been stained. ⁴ »The day of vengeance was in my heart. The year for my reclaiming you has come. ⁵ »I looked, but there was no help. I was astounded that there was no outside support. So my own arm (power) brought me salvation. My anger supported me. ⁶ »In my wrath I trampled on people. In my rage I made them drunk and poured their blood on the ground.«

⁶ »You left me, declares Jehovah. You turned your back on me. So I will stretch out my hand against you (use my power against you) and destroy you. I am tired of showing compassion to you.

²¹ Therefore, give their children over to famine and deliver them up to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed. Let their men also be smitten to death and their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

²³ They have done scandalous and disgraceful things in Israel. They committed adultery with their neighbors' wives and spoke lies in my name. I did not command them to do this. »‘»I know what they have done. I am a witness,« says Jehovah.’«

¹³ »‘I am against you, O valley dweller, O rocky plain,’ declares Jehovah. ‘You men say: »Who will come down against us? Or who will enter into our habitations?

⁷ »All who came upon them have devoured them. Their adversaries said: ‘We are not guilty. They have sinned against Jehovah who is the habitation of righteousness, Even Jehovah, the hope of their fathers.’

¹¹ »You are happy and excited. You have looted the people who belong to me. You dance around like calves on the grass and neigh like stallions.

²⁵ »I am against you, Babylon, you destructive mountain. You have destroyed the whole earth,« declares Jehovah. »I will use my power against you and roll you off the cliffs, and make you a scorched mountain.

⁴⁸ »Then heaven and earth and everything in them will rejoice over Babylon. Destroyers from the north will attack it,« declares Jehovah.

¹ This is what Jehovah says about the people of [AMMON]: »Does Israel not have any children? Does it not have any heirs? Why has the god Milcom taken over the inheritance of Gad's descendants? Why do Milcom's people live in Gad's cities?«

⁷ This is what Jehovah of Hosts says about Edom: »Is there no longer any wisdom in Teman? Has wisdom disappeared from your people? Has their wisdom vanished? ⁸ »Turn and run, take cover in deep places inhabitants of Dedan. When I punish them, I will bring disaster on the descendants of Esau. ⁹ »If people come to pick your grapes, will they not leave a few grapes behind? If thieves come during the night, will they steal only until they have had enough? ¹⁰ »Yet, I will strip the descendants of Esau. I will find their hiding places. They will not be able to hide. Their children and relatives will be destroyed. None of their neighbors will say: ¹¹ »Abandon your orphans, and I will keep them alive. Your widows can trust me.« ¹² This is what Jehovah says: »If those who do not deserve to drink from the cup still drink from it, why should you go unpunished? You will not go unpunished. You must drink from it.« ¹³ »I take an oath on myself,« says Jehovah, »that Bozrah will become a pile of rubble. It will become something horrifying, ridiculed, ruined, and cursed. All its cities will lie in ruins permanently.«

¹³ »I take an oath on myself,« says Jehovah, »that Bozrah will become a pile of rubble. It will become something horrifying, ridiculed, ruined, and cursed. All its cities will lie in ruins permanently.« ¹⁴ I heard a message from Jehovah. A messenger was sent among the nations to say: »Assemble and attack Edom. Get ready for battle.« ¹⁵ »Edom, I will make you the smallest of nations and despised among humanity. ¹⁶ »You have frightened other people. Your arrogance has deceived you. You live on rocky cliffs and occupy the highest places in the hills. Even though you build your nest as high as an eagle, I will bring you down from there,« proclaims Jehovah. ¹⁷ Jehovah said: »The destruction that will come on Edom will be so terrible that everyone who passes by will be shocked and terrified.

¹⁷ Jehovah said: »The destruction that will come on Edom will be so terrible that everyone who passes by will be shocked and terrified. ¹⁸ »The same thing will happen to Edom that happened to Sodom and Gomorrah, when they and the nearby towns were destroyed. No one will ever live there again. I Jehovah have spoken.

¹⁸ »The same thing will happen to Edom that happened to Sodom and Gomorrah, when they and the nearby towns were destroyed. No one will ever live there again. I Jehovah have spoken. ¹⁹ »Like a lion coming out of the thick woods along the Jordan River up to the green pastureland, I will come and make the Edomites run away suddenly from their country. Then the leader I choose will rule the nation. Who can be compared to me? Who would dare challenge me? What ruler could oppose me?« ²⁰ Hear that which I have determined against the people of Edom, and to what I intend to do to the people of the city of Teman. Even their children will be dragged off, and everyone will be horrified. ²¹ When Edom falls, there will be such a noise that the entire earth will shake. The cries of alarm will be heard as far away as the Gulf of Aqaba. ²² The enemy will attack Bozrah like an eagle swooping down with outspread wings. On that day Edom's soldiers will be as frightened as a woman in labor.

²¹ Have joy and be glad, O daughter of Edom, living in the land of Uz. The cup will be given to you in your turn, and you will be overcome with wine and your shame will be seen.

²¹ Have joy and be glad, O daughter of Edom, living in the land of Uz. The cup will be given to you in your turn, and you will be overcome with wine and your shame will be seen. ²² The punishment of your evil doing is complete, O daughter of Zion; never again will he take you away as a prisoner. He has turned his attention to your error, O daughter of Edom. He has uncovered your sin.

⁸ »Therefore, the Lord Jehovah says: ‘Behold, I, even I, am against you! I will execute judgments against you in the sight of the nations.

¹⁵ ‘»The nations that are around you will ridicule you and laugh at you. When I punish you because of my anger, fury, and fierce revenge, you will become something ridiculed and something horrible. I, Jehovah, have spoken.

² »Son of man, look toward the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them.

⁶ ‘»Your dwelling places in the cities will be ruined, and the worship sites will be wrecked. Your altars will be ruined and demolished. Your idols will be smashed and completely destroyed. Your incense burners will be cut down. Everything you have done will be wiped out. ⁷ ‘»Your people will be killed and they will fall among you. Then you will know that I am Jehovah.

⁷ ‘»Your people will be killed and they will fall among you. Then you will know that I am Jehovah.

¹⁴ ‘»I will stretch out my hand (use my power) against them and destroy the land from the desert to Diblah. THEN THEY WILL KNOW THAT I AM JEHOVAH!’«

⁴ ‘»I will not look on you with pity or spare you. I will repay you for your conduct and the detestable practices among you. THEN YOU WILL KNOW THAT I AM JEHOVAH.’

⁹ ‘»I will not look on you with pity or spare you (my eye will not feel sorry for you). I will repay you in accordance with your conduct and the detestable practices among you. Then you will know that it is I, Jehovah, who strikes the blow.

⁴⁶ »Son of man, turn to the south, preach against the south, and prophesy against the forest in the Negev.

¹ Jehovah continued to speak his word to me: ² »Son of man, turn to Jerusalem and preach against the holy places. Prophesy against the land of Israel. ³ »Tell the land of Israel: ‘This is what Jehovah says: »I am against you. I will take my sword out of its sheath and kill the righteous people and the wicked people among you.

²⁵ »You dishonest and wicked prince of Israel, the time for your final punishment has come.

²⁹ »The visions that you see are false. The predictions you make are lies. You are wicked and evil. Your day is coming, the day of your final punishment. The sword is going to fall on your necks.

¹ Jehovah continued to speak his word to me:

² »Son of man set your face (give attention) toward the Ammonites and prophesy against them.

⁸ »The Lord Jehovah says: ‘Because Moab and Seir say, »Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations,

¹² »The Lord Jehovah says: ‘Because Edom has acted against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has incurred grievous guilt, and avenged themselves upon them,

¹² »The Lord Jehovah says: ‘Because Edom has acted against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has incurred grievous guilt, and avenged themselves upon them, ¹³ therefore the Lord Jehovah says: ‘I will also stretch out my hand (exert my power) against Edom and cut off man and beast from it. I will lay it waste! From Teman even to Dedan they will fall by the sword.

¹³ therefore the Lord Jehovah says: ‘I will also stretch out my hand (exert my power) against Edom and cut off man and beast from it. I will lay it waste! From Teman even to Dedan they will fall by the sword. ¹⁴ ‘I will lay my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel. Therefore, they will act in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath. They will know my vengeance, declares the Lord Jehovah.«’

¹⁴ ‘I will lay my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel. Therefore, they will act in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath. They will know my vengeance, declares the Lord Jehovah.«’ ¹⁵ »The Lord Jehovah says: Because the Philistines have acted in revenge and scorn and have taken vengeance to destroy with everlasting enmity,

³ »Say this, ‘The Lord Jehovah says: »I am against you Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great monster (Egypt) (Psalm 74:13,14) that lies in the midst of his rivers. You have said: ‘My Nile is mine! I have made it!’«

¹⁰ »I am against you and against your rivers. I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene and even to the border of Ethiopia. ¹¹ »A man's foot will not pass through it, and the foot of a beast will not pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years.

²⁸ »I will turn the land into a barren wasteland. People will no longer brag about its power. The mountains of Israel will become so ruined that no one will travel through them.

¹ Jehovah continued to speak to me:

³ »Say this, ‘the Lord Jehovah says: »I am against you, Mount Seir! I will stretch out my hand (exert my power) against you and make you a desolation and a waste.

³ »Say this, ‘the Lord Jehovah says: »I am against you, Mount Seir! I will stretch out my hand (exert my power) against you and make you a desolation and a waste. ⁴ »‘»I will lay waste your cities and you will become desolated. Then you will know that I am Jehovah.

⁴ »‘»I will lay waste your cities and you will become desolated. Then you will know that I am Jehovah.

⁷ »‘I will make Mount Seir a waste and desolation. I will cut off from it the one who passes through and returns.

⁹ »‘I will make you an everlasting desolation! Your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am Jehovah!’

¹² »‘Then you will know that I, Jehovah, have heard all your insults you have spoken against the mountains of Israel. You said: ‘They are laid desolate. They are given to us for food.’

² ‘»‘The Lord Jehovah says: »Because the enemy has spoken against you, aha! And the everlasting heights have become our possession.

² ‘»‘The Lord Jehovah says: »Because the enemy has spoken against you, aha! And the everlasting heights have become our possession. ³ »Therefore prophesy and say: ‘The Lord Jehovah says: For good reason they have made you desolate and crushed you from every side. That way you would become a possession of the rest of the nations and you have become a subject of conversation for the people. ⁴ ‘»‘Therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Jehovah. The Lord Jehovah says to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the forsaken cities that have become a prey and derision to the rest of the nations that are round about, ⁵ ‘»‘The Lord Jehovah says: ‘Surely in the fire of my jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who appropriated my land for themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and with scorn, to drive it out for a prey.’«’

⁵ ‘»‘The Lord Jehovah says: ‘Surely in the fire of my jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who appropriated my land for themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and with scorn, to drive it out for a prey.’«’

¹¹ »‘I will increase the number of people and animals that live on you. They will grow and become many. I will let people live on you as in the past, and I will make you better off than ever before. Then you will know that I am Jehovah.

¹² »‘Alien tyrants of the nations have cut it down and left it. On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land. All the peoples of the earth have gone down from its shade and left it.

⁴ »‘I will leave you on the land. I will cast you on the open field. I will cause all the birds of the heavens to dwell on you. And I will satisfy the beasts of the entire earth with you. ⁵ »‘I will lay your flesh on the mountains. I will fill the valleys with your refuse.

²⁹ »‘Edom is there with its kings and its princes. They used to be powerful, but now they lie with those who were killed in battle. They lie there with the godless people and with those who have gone down to the pit.

⁴ »‘Gog and his army and his allies will fall dead on the mountains of Israel. I will let their bodies be food for all the birds and wild animals.«’ ⁵ »‘They will fall dead in the open field. I,’ the Lord Jehovah, ‘have spoken. ⁶ »‘I will start a fire in the land of Magog and along all the seacoasts where people live undisturbed. Everyone will know that I am Jehovah! ⁷ ‘I will make sure that my people Israel know my holy name. I will not let my name be disgraced any more. Then the nations will know that I, Jehovah, am the holy God of Israel.’

³⁵ »The city will measure about thirty-one thousand five hundred feet all the way around. From then on the city's name will be: Jehovah Is There.«

³⁶ »The king will do according to his will. He will exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god. He will speak horrable (atrocious) things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the indignation is accomplished for that which is determined will be done.

¹⁹ »Egypt will be desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness. This is because of the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

¹¹ Jehovah declared: »For three and four transgressions of Edom, I will not withdraw punishment. He pursued his brother with the sword. He showed no compassion but was driven with anger and eternal wrath.

¹¹ Jehovah declared: »For three and four transgressions of Edom, I will not withdraw punishment. He pursued his brother with the sword. He showed no compassion but was driven with anger and eternal wrath. ¹² »I will send a fire upon Teman, and it will devour the palaces of Bozrah.«

¹ The vision of Obadiah. The Sovereign Lord Jehovah (YHWH) spoke concerning Edom: »We have heard news from Jehovah. An ambassador is sent to the nations, saying, we must stand up against her (Edom) in battle.«

²⁴ »Seventy weeks (seventy sets of seven time periods) are decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish transgression and to make an end of sin, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

¹⁰ »You will be covered with shame for the violence done to your brother Jacob. You will be destroyed and disgraced for a very long time.

¹⁰ »You will be covered with shame for the violence done to your brother Jacob. You will be destroyed and disgraced for a very long time. ¹¹ »In that day you stood on the other side! In that day strangers carried away his wealth. Foreigners entered his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem! It was as if you were one of them!

¹¹ »In that day you stood on the other side! In that day strangers carried away his wealth. Foreigners entered his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem! It was as if you were one of them! ¹² Do not look on the day of your brother’s disaster. Do not rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction! Do not speak proudly in the day of distress.

¹² Do not look on the day of your brother’s disaster. Do not rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction! Do not speak proudly in the day of distress.

¹² Do not look on the day of your brother’s disaster. Do not rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction! Do not speak proudly in the day of distress. ¹³ »Do not enter the gate of my people in the day of their calamity! Do not look on their affliction in the day of their tragedy! Do not loot their wealth in the day of their disaster.

¹³ »Do not enter the gate of my people in the day of their calamity! Do not look on their affliction in the day of their tragedy! Do not loot their wealth in the day of their disaster.

¹³ »Do not enter the gate of my people in the day of their calamity! Do not look on their affliction in the day of their tragedy! Do not loot their wealth in the day of their disaster. ¹⁴ »Do not stand in the way of those who escape and do not hand over his survivors in the day of distress.

¹⁴ »Do not stand in the way of those who escape and do not hand over his survivors in the day of distress. ¹⁵ »The Day of Jehovah draws near upon all the nations. It will be done to you just as you have done. Your dealings will return upon you head!

¹⁵ »The Day of Jehovah draws near upon all the nations. It will be done to you just as you have done. Your dealings will return upon you head! ¹⁶ »Just as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink! Continually: Yes they will drink, and swallow down, and will be as though they had never existed.

¹³ »I am against you,« said Jehovah of Hosts! »I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will destroy your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will be heard no more.«

⁵ »I am against you, Nineveh,« declares Jehovah of Hosts. »I will lift up your dress over your face. I will show nations your naked body and kingdoms your disgrace.

⁹ »Just as I live,« said Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, »Moab will be like Sodom, and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah. They will be possessions of nettles and salt pits. They will be deserted forever! My people will plunder them and the remnant of my nation will take possession of their land.

¹⁵ Jehovah has removed his judgments against you. He has turned aside your enemies. The King of Israel, Jehovah, is in your midst! You will fear calamity no more.

⁵ Jehovah said: »I will become to her a wall of fire around her, and I will be the glory in the midst of her.«

³ »And yet I hated Esau and his descendants. I devastated Esau's hill country and abandoned his inheritance to the desert jackals.« ⁴ Esau's descendants, the Edomites, say: »Our towns have been destroyed, but we will rebuild them.« Thus Jehovah (YHWH) will reply: »Let them rebuild. I will tear them down again. People will call them the evil country. They are the nation with whom Jehovah has a long lasting anger.

¹³ »You have said terrible things about me,« said Jehovah of Hosts. »Yet you ask: ‘What have we said about you?’«

² »As you judge, so you will be judged. As you measure, it will be measured to you.

⁸ Jerusalem, Idumaea, beyond the Jordan, and from Tyre and Sidon. These people heard the great things he did and came to him.

¹⁹ Pray on my behalf, that ability to speak may be given to me, to make known with boldness the secret of the good news.

²¹ For no prophecy ever came by the will of man! Men spoke from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

¹⁸ For, uttering arrogant words of vanity, they entice in the desires (lusts) of the flesh, by sensuality (lasciviousness), those who are just escaping from the ones who live in error.

¹³ For judgment is without mercy to him who shows no mercy. And mercy triumphs over judgment.

¹⁵ »They execute judgment upon all. They convict all the ungodly of all their wicked behavior, deeds that they have committed in an irreverent way, and of all the hard things those detestable sinners have spoken against him.«

⁵ A mouth speaking great things and blasphemies was given to the beast. And authority to act was given to him to continue forty-two months. ⁶ He opened his mouth to blaspheme God, to slander his name, and his dwelling place, and those who live in heaven.

⁵ I heard the angel of the waters say: »You are righteous, Jehovah, who are, and was, the Holy One, because you have judged these things. (Exodus 3:14) ⁶ »They have shed the blood of the holy ones and prophets. You give them blood to drink for they deserve it.« ⁷ I heard another say: »Even so, Jehovah God the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments.« (Deuteronomy 32:4) (Psalm 145:17) (Exodus 6:3)

⁶ »Render to her even as she rendered to you. Pay back double to her, double according to her works: in the cup that she has filled, fill double for her!

²⁴ »The blood of prophets, and of holy ones, and of all who were slain upon the earth was found in her.«

² »True and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great harlot, who corrupted the earth with her fornication. And has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.« ³ Again they said: »Praise Jehovah. Her smoke rose up forever and ever.«