Thus I will make Mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it the one who leaves and the one who returns.
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.
- BSB I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.
- 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 tell it, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and an astonishment.
- Ezek 29:11No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of animal shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
- Judg 5:6–7“In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied. The travelers walked through byways.
- Ezek 35:9I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
- 2 Chr 15:5–6In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great troubles were on all the inhabitants of the lands.
- Ezek 33:28I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment; and the pride of her power shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, so that no one shall pass through.
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