Oracles Against Moab and Seir
Ezekiel 25:8-11
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Eze.25.8 - Details
Original Text
Morphology
- כה: ADV
- אמר: VERB,qal,perf,3,m,sg
- אדני: NOUN,m,sg,abs,1,sg
- יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
- יען: CONJ
- אמר: VERB,qal,perf,3,m,sg
- מואב: NOUN,m,sg,prop
- ושעיר: CONJ+NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
- הנה: PART
- ככל: PREP
- הגוים: NOUN,m,pl,def
- בית: NOUN,m,sg,abs
- יהודה: NOUN,m,sg,prop
Parallels
- Ezekiel 36:20-23 (verbal): Same prophet and concern: nations observe Israel among the peoples and ‘profaned my holy name’—connecting foreign derision of Judah with the charge that they are ‘like all the nations.’
- Ezekiel 35:15 (structural): Addresses Seir/Edom’s rejoicing over Israel’s ruin; parallels Ezek.25 in blaming Seir/Moab for gloating and treating Judah as like other nations deserving contempt.
- Obadiah 1:12 (allusion): Condemns Edom for gloating over Judah’s calamity (‘Do not gloat…in the day of your brother’), echoing the reproach of neighboring peoples who boast that Judah is no different from the nations.
- Psalm 79:10 (thematic): Voices the complaint that the nations mock Israel (‘Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”’), thematically linked to Moab/Seir’s dismissive claim about the house of Judah.
Alternative generated candidates
- Thus says the Lord GOD: Because Moab and Seir said, 'Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations,'
- Thus says the LORD GOD: Because Moab and Seir said, 'Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations.'
Eze.25.9 - Details
Original Text
Morphology
- לכן: ADV
- הנני: PRT+PRON,1,sg
- פתח: NOUN,m,sg,abs
- את: PRT,acc
- כתף: NOUN,f,sg,abs
- מואב: NOUN,m,sg,prop
- מהערים: PREP+NOUN,f,pl,def
- מעריו: PREP+NOUN,m,pl,abs+3ms
- מקצהו: PREP+NOUN,m,sg,abs+3ms
- צבי: NOUN,m,sg,abs
- ארץ: NOUN,f,sg,abs
- בית: NOUN,m,sg,abs
- הישימת: UNK
- בעל: NOUN,m,sg,abs
- מעון: NOUN,m,sg,abs
- וקריתימה: CONJ+UNK
Parallels
- Isaiah 15:2 (verbal): Isaiah's oracle against Moab names the same Moabite towns (e.g., Dibon/Ar) and portrays their ruin—verbal/place-name overlap and parallel imagery of cities laid waste.
- Amos 2:1 (thematic): Amos pronounces judgment on Moab ('For three transgressions of Moab...'), echoing the theme of divine punishment and removal of people described in Ezekiel 25:9.
- Zephaniah 2:9 (thematic): Zephaniah declares that Moab will be laid waste and become like Sodom—a similar theme of total devastation and loss of habitation found in Ezekiel's prophecy.
- Ezekiel 25:7 (structural): A neighboring oracle within the same chapter (against Ammon) uses the same prophetic structure and concluding purpose ('that they may know that I am the LORD') and similar punitive language about cutting off people and animals.
Alternative generated candidates
- therefore I will uncover the flank of Moab from his cities, from his strongholds to the ends of his land; I will give up the pride of the country—the pasture and its settled places, its cities and their outskirts—into the hand of the people of the east.
- Therefore I will lay bare the flank of Moab—from its cities, from its strongholds, from its border—the pride of the land: Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriothaim.
Eze.25.10 - Details
Original Text
Morphology
- לבני: PREP
- קדם: NOUN,m,sg,cons
- על: PREP
- בני: NOUN,m,pl,construct
- עמון: NOUN,m,sg,abs
- ונתתיה: VERB,qal,impf,1,_,sg+3fs
- למורשה: PREP+NOUN,f,sg,abs
- למען: PREP
- לא: PART_NEG
- תזכר: VERB,qal,imperfect,2,m,sg
- בני: NOUN,m,pl,construct
- עמון: NOUN,m,sg,abs
- בגוים: PREP+NOUN,m,pl,abs
Parallels
- Jeremiah 49:1-6 (thematic): Oracle against the Ammonites announcing punishment and plunder—parallels Ezekiel's judgment language and the theme of God giving Ammon over to others.
- Amos 1:13-15 (thematic): Pronouncement of doom on the Ammonites (including burning Rabbah) and the handing over of their strongholds—echoes Ezekiel's motif of destruction and dispossession.
- Deuteronomy 2:9 (verbal): God's statement about giving lands around Moab/Ammon (Ar) to Lot's descendants—resonates with the idea of divinely granted possession of territory among eastern peoples.
- Ezekiel 25:7 (structural): Immediate context within the same oracle against Ammon and Moab—connects the reason (rejoicing in Israel's blood) to the judgment and subsequent handing over in v.10.
- Zephaniah 2:9 (thematic): Pronounces Moab and Ammon's doom (comparing them to Sodom/Gomorrah) and their loss of status—aligns with Ezekiel's theme of judgment and loss of inheritance.
Alternative generated candidates
- I will make them spoil for the sons of the east, and I will give them as a possession to the Ammonites, so that the sons of Ammon shall not be remembered among the nations.
- I will give it to the people of the east as an inheritance over the sons of Ammon; so that the sons of Ammon shall not be remembered among the nations.
Eze.25.11 - Details
Original Text
Morphology
- ובמואב: CONJ+PREP+NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
- אעשה: VERB,qal,impf,1,_,sg
- שפטים: NOUN,m,pl,abs
- וידעו: VERB,qal,wayyiqtol,3,m,pl
- כי: CONJ
- אני: PRON,1,sg
- יהוה: NOUN,prop,m,sg,abs
Parallels
- Ezekiel 25:7 (verbal): Immediate context parallel: the same formula "and they shall know that I am the LORD" is used of God's judgment on Ammon, with similar language of punishment and purpose.
- Ezekiel 25:17 (verbal): Concluding promise in the chapter applying vengeance to the Philistines; repeats the declaration that the nations will know that YHWH is LORD after divine retribution.
- Ezekiel 36:23 (thematic): God declares he will act so that the nations know he is LORD—the theological purpose (making God's name known through action) parallels the motive behind judgments in Ezek.25:11.
- Ezekiel 39:7 (allusion): After the judgment on Gog, God says the nations will know that he is the LORD; links punitive action with the recognition of God's identity in the same way as Ezek.25:11.
Alternative generated candidates
- And I will execute judgments on Moab; then they shall know that I am the LORD.
- And I will execute judgments in Moab, and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Thus says the LORD: Because Moab and Seir said, 'Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations,'
therefore I will stretch out my hand against Moab; I will cut off from them, from their cities and from their borders—the pride of the land—Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim.
I will give them to the people of the east as a possession; they shall possess them, and I will make the memory of the sons of Ammon cease among the nations, so that they shall not be remembered. And I will execute judgments on Moab, and they shall know that I am the LORD.