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What does Ezekiel 35:4 mean?

"I will lay your cities waste, and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am Yahweh."

— Ezekiel 35:4 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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“Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

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and tell it, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you. I will make you a desolation and an astonishment.

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I will lay your cities waste, and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

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“‘“Because you have had a perpetual hostility, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;

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therefore, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will prepare you for blood, and blood will pursue you. Since you have not hated blood, therefore blood will pursue you.

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Thus will I 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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