Ezekiel 35:15

As you rejoiced when the inheritance of the house of Israel became desolate, so will I do to you. You will become a desolation, O Mount Seir, and so will all of Edom. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — The Lord speaks to Mount Seir and the nation of Edom, pronouncing judgment directly in response to their celebration over Israel’s ruined inheritance.

The words — שָׁמֵ֖מָה (sha.Me.mah) = it had been desolated and כְּ/שִׂמְחָ֨תְ/ךָ֜ (ke./sim.Cha.te./kha) = according to your rejoicing.

The thread — The motif of Edom’s downfall runs through Isaiah 34:5, where the Lord’s sword executes the people devoted to destruction, and Lamentations 4:21, which declares the cup of judgment will pass to the Daughter of Edom. Ezekiel 35:3 establishes the oracle’s opening declaration of divine opposition to Mount Seir.

Why it lands — The text demands recognition that divine retribution mirrors human gloating, and that the resulting desolation forces universal acknowledgment of the Lord’s authority.

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The Hebrew words

King James Version

As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Cross-references

Isaiah 34:5 When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.
Lamentations 4:21 So rejoice and be glad, O Daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz. Yet the cup will pass to you as well; you will get drunk and expose yourself.
Ezekiel 35:3 and 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.
Psalms 137:7 Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”
Obadiah 1:12 But you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress.
Obadiah 1:15 For the Day of the LORD is near for all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your recompense will return upon your own head.
Proverbs 17:5 He who mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.
Jeremiah 50:11 “Because you rejoice, because you sing in triumph—you who plunder My inheritance—because you frolic like a heifer treading grain and neigh like stallions,
Ezekiel 35:9 I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 36:2 This is what the Lord GOD says: Because the enemy has said of you, ‘Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession,’