“‘“Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two countries will be mine, and we will possess it,’ although the LORD was there,
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Ezekiel 35:10 in context
Ezekiel 35:7–13
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Thus I will make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation. I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns.
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I will fill its mountains with its slain. The slain with the sword will fall in your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses.
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I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
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“‘“Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two countries will be mine, and we will possess it,’ although the LORD was there,
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therefore, as I live,” says the Lord GOD, “I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them when I judge you.
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You will know that I, the LORD, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They have been laid desolate. They have been given to us to devour.’
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You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me. I have heard it.”
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