Ezechiele 35
Conferenza Episcopale Italiana
Contro i monti di Edom
35 Mi fu rivolta questa parola del Signore: 2 «Figlio dell'uomo, volgiti verso il monte Seir e profetizza contro di esso. 3 Annunzierai: Dice il Signore Dio:
Eccomi a te, monte Seir,
anche su di te stenderò il mio braccio
e farò di te una solitudine, un luogo desolato.
4 Ridurrò le tue città in macerie,
e tu diventerai un deserto;
così saprai che io sono il Signore.
5 Tu hai mantenuto un odio secolare contro gli Israeliti e li hai consegnati alla spada nel giorno della loro sventura, quando ho posto fine alla loro iniquità; 6 per questo, com'è vero ch'io vivo - dice il Signore Dio - ti abbandonerò al sangue e il sangue ti perseguiterà; tu hai odiato il sangue e il sangue ti perseguiterà. 7 Farò del monte Seir una solitudine e un deserto e vi eliminerò chiunque su di esso va e viene. 8 Riempirò di cadaveri i tuoi monti; sulle tue alture, per le tue pendici, in tutte le tue valli cadranno i trafitti di spada. 9 In solitudine perenne ti ridurrò e le tue città non saranno più abitate: saprete che io sono il Signore. 10 Poiché hai detto: Questi due popoli, questi due territori saranno miei, noi li possiederemo, anche se là è il Signore. 11 Per questo, com'è vero ch'io vivo - oracolo del Signore Dio - io agirò secondo quell'ira e quel furore che tu hai dimostrato nell'odio contro di loro e mi rivelerò in mezzo a loro quando farò giustizia di te: 12 saprai allora che io sono il Signore. Ho udito tutti gli insulti che tu hai proferiti contro i monti d'Israele: Sono deserti; son dati a noi perché vi pascoliamo. 13 Contro di me avete fatto discorsi insolenti, contro di me avete moltiplicato le parole: ho udito tutto. 14 Così dice il Signore Dio: Poiché tutto il paese ha gioito, farò di te una solitudine: 15 poiché tu hai gioito per l'eredità della casa d'Israele che era devastata, così io tratterò te: sarai ridotto a una solitudine, o monte Seir, e tu Edom, tutto intero; si saprà che io sono il Signore».
Ezekiel 35
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Judgment on Mount Seir
35 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, set your face against Mount Se′ir, and prophesy against it, 3 and say to it, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, Mount Se′ir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and a waste. 4 I will lay your cities waste, and you shall become a desolation; and you shall know that I am the Lord. 5 Because you cherished perpetual enmity, and gave over the people of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment; 6 therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; because you are guilty of blood,[a] therefore blood shall pursue you. 7 I will make Mount Se′ir a waste and a desolation; and I will cut off from it all who come and go. 8 And I will fill your mountains with the slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those slain with the sword shall fall. 9 I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
10 “Because you said, ‘These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will take possession of them,’—although the Lord was there— 11 therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, I will deal with you according to the anger and envy which you showed because of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among you,[b] when I judge you. 12 And you shall know that I, the Lord, have heard all the revilings which you uttered against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They are laid desolate, they are given us to devour.’ 13 And you magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and multiplied your words against me; I heard it. 14 Thus says the Lord God: For the rejoicing of the whole earth I will make you desolate. 15 As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will deal with you; you shall be desolate, Mount Se′ir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 35:6 Gk: Heb you have hated blood
- Ezekiel 35:11 Gk: Heb them
Ezekiel 35
King James Version
35 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
3 And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
6 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord God, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
7 Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.
8 And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
9 I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
10 Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the Lord was there:
11 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord God, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
12 And thou shalt know that I am the Lord, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
13 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
14 Thus saith the Lord God; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.
15 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.
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