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OET-LV Oh_son of_humankind set face_your on the_mountain of_Sēˊīr and_prophesy on/upon/above_him/it.
UHB בֶּן־אָדָ֕ם שִׂ֥ים פָּנֶ֖יךָ עַל־הַ֣ר שֵׂעִ֑יר וְהִנָּבֵ֖א עָלָֽיו׃ ‡
(ben-ʼādām sim pāneykā ˊal-har sēˊir vəhinnāⱱēʼ ˊālāyv.)
Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).
ULT “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it.
UST “Son of man, turn toward Edom and prophesy what will happen to its people. Say this to them:
BSB “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it,
OEB Son of man, turn thy face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
WEBBE “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
WMBB (Same as above)
NET “Son of man, turn toward Mount Seir, and prophesy against it.
LSV “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
FBV “Son of man, face towards Mount Seir and prophesy against it
T4T “You human, turn toward Edom and prophesy what will happen to its people. Say that this is what Yahweh says to them:
LEB “Son of man,[fn] set your face against the mountain of Seir and prophesy against it,
?:? Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
BBE Son of man, let your face be turned to Mount Seir, and be a prophet against it,
Moff No Moff EZE book available
JPS 'Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
ASV Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
DRA Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy concerning it, and say to it:
YLT 'Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
Drby Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
RV Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
Wbstr Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
KJB-1769 Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
(Son of man, set thy/your face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it, )
KJB-1611 Sonne of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophecie against it,
(Son of man, set thy/your face against mount Seir, and prophecie against it,)
Bshps Thou sonne of man, set thy face toward the mount Seir, prophecie against it.
(Thou son of man, set thy/your face toward the mount Seir, prophecie against it.)
Gnva Sonne of man, Set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesie against it,
(Son of man, Set thy/your face against mount Seir, and prophesie against it, )
Cvdl Thou sonne of man, turne thy face towarde the mount Seir, prophecy vpon it,
(Thou son of man, turn thy/your face towarde the mount Seir, prophecy upon it,)
Wyc and he seide, Thou, sone of man, sette thi face ayens the hil of Seir; and thou schalt profesie to it, and thou schalt seie to it,
(and he said, Thou, son of man, set thy/your face against the hill of Seir; and thou/you shalt profesie to it, and thou/you shalt say to it,)
Luth Du Menschenkind, richte dein Angesicht wider das Gebirge Seir und weissage dawider
(You Menschenkind, richte your face against the mountains Seir and weissage dawider)
ClVg Fili hominis, pone faciem tuam adversum montem Seir, et prophetabis de eo, et dices illi:
(Fili of_man, pone face tuam adversum montem Seir, and prophetabis about eo, and dices illi: )
BrTr Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
BrLXX υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου, ἐπίστρεψον τὸ πρόσωπόν σου ἐπʼ ὄρος Σηεὶρ, καὶ προφήτευσον εἰς αὐτὸ,
(huie anthrōpou, epistrepson to prosōpon sou epʼ oros Saʸeir, kai profaʸteuson eis auto, )
35:1-15 This oracle is addressed to Edom, Israel’s neighbor to the southeast, here identified by its central mountain, Mount Seir. Edom was emblematic of all Israel’s enemies (e.g., in their rejoicing at Israel’s fall, 36:2; see also 25:12-14). The demise of Judah at the hands of the Babylonians might have given Edom room to thrive, but the Lord declared that this prosperity would be short-lived.
(Occurrence 0) Son of man
(Some words not found in UHB: son_of humankind set face,your on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in mount Sēˊīr and,prophesy on/upon/above=him/it )
God calls Ezekiel this to emphasize that Ezekiel is only a human being. God is eternal and powerful, but humans are not. See how you translated this in Ezekiel 2:1. Alternate translation: “Mortal person” or “Human”
Note 1 topic: translate-symaction
(Occurrence 0) set your face against Mount Seir
(Some words not found in UHB: son_of humankind set face,your on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in mount Sēˊīr and,prophesy on/upon/above=him/it )
Mount Seir was far away, so Ezekiel could not see it, but Yahweh commands him to stare in that direction as a symbol of harming the people there. See how you translated a similar phrase in Ezekiel 6:2. Alternate translation: “turn toward Mount Seir and stare” or “stare toward Mount Seir so that the people there will be harmed”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / personification
(Occurrence 0) Mount Seir and prophesy against it
(Some words not found in UHB: son_of humankind set face,your on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in mount Sēˊīr and,prophesy on/upon/above=him/it )
“the mountain of Seir.” Yahweh tells Ezekiel to speak to Mount Seir as if it could hear him. The message is for all of the people of Edom. Alternate translation: “Mount Seir and prophesy against it because of what the people of Edom have done”
While the location of Mount Sinai is arguably the most significant unresolved debate remaining in Bible geography, it is this author’s estimation that the borders of Edom and Seir (also called “Mount Seir” and “the highlands of Seir”) have actually led to a greater amount of confusion regarding where related events took place. This confusion stems primarily from a key misunderstanding widely held about Edom and Seir: that Seir was located either solely or primarily on the eastern side of the Arabah (the low valley dividing virtually all of Israel from northern end of the Jordan River to the city of Elath on the Red Sea). But this author is convinced that, prior to the later Old Testament, all biblical references to Seir regard it as a sub-region within the greater area of Edom, and it was located on the western side of the Arabah. To be clear, the biblical accounts consistently affirm that the nation of Edom (the descendants of Esau) occupied the eastern side of the Arabah and even had their own rulers before the Israelites had kings (Genesis 36), as shown on this map. But this area is not typically what is intended when the biblical writers use the term Seir. (A nearly exhaustive list of references to Seir as a geographical term includes: Genesis 14:6; 32-33; 36; Numbers 24:18; Deuteronomy 1:2, 44; 2:1-12, 22-29; 33:2; Joshua 11:17; 12:7; 24:4; Judges 5:4; 1 Chronicles 1:38; 4:42; 2 Chronicles 20:10-23; 25:11-14; Isaiah 21:11; Ezekiel 35:2-15.) Also, it should be noted that the assumption that Seir was located east of the Arabah is at least as old as the writings of Josephus (Ant., IV, iv, 7) immediately after the New Testament, for he seems to assume this. Yet, Josephus’s overall reliability regarding the location of the events of the wilderness wanderings (and thus Seir) is called into question by his misidentification of Mount Hor with Jebel Nebi Harun (see “The Israelites’ Journeys in the Wilderness” map), so it is very possible he was also mistaken about Seir. Similarly, though it is commonly concluded that the term Seir can be found in the name ash-Sharat, it should be noted that the Arabic term for the eastern mountains of Edom was likely applied to the region several hundred years after the close of the Old Testament era and the time of Josephus, so it is possible that the term Seir had long since shifted to the eastern mountains by this time. Also, while archeological data confirms that eastern Edom was populated with a settled civilization before western Edom, this data likely would not accurately reflect habitation by semi-nomadic peoples such as Esau and his earlier descendants, whose settlements would have been largely temporary and unlikely to be recovered. In terms of biblical evidence, however, several verses support and even seem to require that Seir be located on the western side of the Arabah (Deuteronomy 2:1; Joshua 12:7; 1 Chronicles 4:42-43; see also Joshua 15:1) and also that Seir was only a sub-region within the larger Edomite nation (Ezekiel 35:15). And while some verses seem ambiguous regarding the location of Seir, none of them offer compelling testimony that it should be located east of the Arabah. A few passages (for example, 2 Chronicles 25; Ezekiel 35 [though see v. 15]) seem at times to use the term Seir to refer to all of Edom, but they never use it to refer only to eastern Edom. Instead, they appear to use the term in a similar way that the biblical writers sometimes symbolically use the term Ephraim to refer to all the northern Israelite tribes (Isaiah 7-11; Jeremiah 31; Hosea 5-14; Zechariah 9-10), though it was widely understood that Ephraim only occupied a specific portion of tribal territory within the land of Israel. If the borders of Seir, however, are relocated west of the Arabah, as shown here at the time of Joshua’s allotment of Canaan, several related stories in the Bible make better sense. For example, the journeys of Jacob and Esau as they meet each other and part once again make the best sense if Esau was arriving from a location on the west side of the Jordan River (Genesis 32-33; also see “Jacob Returns to Canaan” and “Jacob Travels to Southern Canaan” maps). Likewise it is easiest to envision the Israelites skirting the land of Seir after turning back from Kadesh (Deuteronomy 2:1; see “The Israelites’ Journeys in the Wilderness” map) if Seir was located west of the Arabah. Joshua’s description of Judah’s southern border also makes the most sense if Seir (and thus Edom) was located west of the Arabah (Joshua 15:1). In the time of Hezekiah, a western location for Seir makes it easiest to envision a company of 500 Simeonites exterminating a remnant of Amalekites there and settling in their place (1 Chronicles 4:42-43; see “Hezekiah Strengthens Judah” map). Finally, the prophet Ezekiel cursed the Edomites for encroaching far north of Judah’s southern border after the Babylonians ravaged the land (Ezekiel 35), and this is easiest to envision if the Edomites already occupied land immediately south of Judah. And by way of extrapolation, if it is to be assumed that the Horites, who formerly inhabited Seir (Deuteronomy 2:12), took their name from Mount Hor or that Mount Hor was named after them, then it is likely that this peak where Aaron died was located somewhere within the region of Seir as it is shown here (see “The Israelites’ Journeys in the Wilderness” map).