Holy Scripture
Ezekiel 35:5
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 35, 36, and following) And I will bring you into a desert of peoples, and there I will judge you face to face. Just as I contended with your fathers in the desert of the land of Egypt, so I will judge you, says the Lord. And I will subject you to my scepter, and I will bring you into the bonds of the covenant,…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
5Because thou hast been a perpetual enemy, and hast laid wait craftily for the house of Israel, with the hand of enemies with a sword, in the time of injustice, at the last:
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3and say to it, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against thee, and will make thee a waste, and thou shalt be made desolate.
4And I will cause desolation in thy cities, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
— Ezekiel 35:5 —
6Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord God, verily thou hast sinned even to blood, therefore blood shall pursue thee.
7And I will make Mount Seir a waste, and desolate, and I will destroy from off it men and cattle: