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I’m going to turn your cities into ghost towns,
    and you will become a ruin.
Then you will learn
    that I am the Lord.

“Because of your undying hatred, you kept on making the Israelis experience abuse[a] during the time of their calamity, even when they were in their final stages[b] of punishment, therefore as I’m alive and living,” declares the Lord God, “I’m turning you over to bloodshed,[c] and bloodshed will certainly overtake you, since you never have hated shedding blood. That’s why bloodshed will certainly pursue you.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 35:5 Lit. to the hand of the sword
  2. Ezekiel 35:5 Lit. time
  3. Ezekiel 35:6 The Heb. word blood sounds like Edom, the territory south of the Dead Sea in which Mt. Seir, the modern Jebel esh-sherá, is located