Ezekiel 35:2 - Exposition

Set thy face against Mount Seir. The mountainous are in between the Dead Sea and the Elanitic Gulf, which formed the original settlement of Esau and his descendants ( Genesis 36:9 ), is here put for the land of Edom, as the land in turn stands for its people ( Ezekiel 25:8 ). Although already the prophet has pronounced a threatening doom against Edom ( Ezekiel 25:12-14 ), he once more directs against, it the judgments of Heaven, on this occasion viewing it as the representative of all those hostile world-powers which from the first had been opposed to Israel as the theocratic nation, and which even then, by their antagonism, hindered her return (cf. Isaiah 63:1-8 ).