Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
Mount Seir - i:e., Idumea (Genesis 36:9). Singled out, as badly preeminent in its bitterness against God's people, to represent all their enemies everywhere and in all ages. So in Isaiah 34:5; Isaiah 63:1-4, Edom, the region of the greatest enmity toward God's people, is the ideal scene of the final judgments on all God's foes. "Seir" х See`iyr (H8165)] means shaggy, alluding to its rugged hills and forests; and originally to Esau, the ancestor of Edom, having been from the womb "hairy" (the same Hebrew is here as in Genesis 25:25), Genesis 27:11.