Ezekiel 25:7-11

25:7 take note, I have stretched out my hand against you, and I will hand you over as plunder ¹  to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and make you perish from the lands. I will destroy you; then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

A Prophecy Against Moab

25:8 “This is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘Moab ²  and Seir say, “Look, the house of Judah is like all the other nations.” 25:9 So look, I am about to open up Moab’s flank, ³  eliminating the cities, ⁴  including its frontier cities, ⁵  the beauty of the land – Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim. 25:10 I will hand it over, ⁶  along with the Ammonites, ⁷  to the tribes ⁸  of the east, so that the Ammonites will no longer be remembered among the nations. 25:11 I will execute judgments against Moab. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’”

[25:7]  ¹ tc The translation here follows the marginal reading (Qere) of the Hebrew text. The consonantal text (Kethib) is meaningless.

[25:8]  ² sn Moab was located immediately south of Ammon.

[25:9]  ³ tn Heb “shoulder.”

[25:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “from the cities.” The verb “eliminating” has been added in the translation to reflect the privative use of the preposition (see BDB 583 s.v. מִן 7.b).

[25:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “from its cities, from its end.”

[25:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “I will give it for a possession.”

[25:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “the sons of Ammon” (twice in this verse).

[25:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “the sons.”