I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.
Parallel translations
- WEB Thus will I make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation; and I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns.
- KJV Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.
- NKJV Thus I will make Mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it the one who leaves and the one who returns.
- NASB I will make Mount Seir a waste and a desolation and I will eliminate from it one who passes through and returns.
- NLT I will make Mount Seir utterly desolate, killing off all who try to escape and any who return.
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God will make Mount Seir an utter desolation, cutting off all who pass through it. Edom's land will be emptied of life and traffic.
Overview
Making Seir 'an astonishment and a desolation' and cutting off travelers signals total ruin—no inhabitants, no passersby. The thoroughness of the judgment matches the completeness of Edom's guilt. Historically, Edom did decline and disappear as a nation, a sobering testimony to the reliability of God's word against the proud.
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- Ezek 35:3and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir. I will stretch out My hand against you and make you a desolate waste.
- Ezek 29:11No foot of man or beast will pass through, and it will be uninhabited for forty years.
- Judg 5:6–7In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were deserted and the travelers took the byways.
- Ezek 35:9I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
- 2 Chr 15:5–6In those days there was no safety for travelers, because the residents of the lands had many conflicts.
- Ezek 33:28I will make the land a desolate waste, and the pride of her strength will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will become desolate, so that no one will pass through.
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