Ezekiel 35

1 Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Moreover the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,

2 “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it,

Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it.

3 and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir. I will stretch out My hand against you and make you a desolate waste.

And say to it, Thus says the lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, O mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against thee, and I will make thee a desolation and an astonishment.

4 I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shall be desolate. And thou shall know that I am Jehovah.

5 Because you harbored an ancient hatred and delivered the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their disaster at the final stage of their punishment,

Because thou have had a perpetual enmity, and have given over the sons of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end,

6 therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, it will pursue you.

therefore, as I live, says the lord Jehovah, I will prepare thee to blood, and blood shall pursue thee. Since thou have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue thee.

7 I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.

Thus I will make mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation, and I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns.

8 I will fill its mountains with the slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines.

And I will fill its mountains with its slain. In thy hills and in thy valleys and in all thy watercourses they shall fall who are slain with the sword.

9 I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall not be inhabited. And ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

10 Because you have said, ‘These two nations and countries will be ours, and we will possess them,’ even though the LORD was there,

Because thou have said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it, whereas Jehovah was there,

11 therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will treat you according to the anger and jealousy you showed in your hatred against them, and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.

therefore, as I live, says the lord Jehovah, I will do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou have shown out of thy hatred against them. And I will make myself known among them when I shall judge thee.

12 Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard every contemptuous word you uttered against the mountains of Israel when you said, ‘They are desolate; they are given to us to devour!’

And thou shall know that I, Jehovah, have heard all thy revilings which thou have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate. They are given us to devour.

13 You boasted against Me with your mouth and multiplied your words against Me. I heard it Myself!

And ye have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me. I have heard it.

14 This is what the Lord GOD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

Thus says the lord Jehovah: When the whole earth rejoices, I will make thee desolate.

15 As you rejoiced when the inheritance of the house of Israel became desolate, so will I do to you. You will become a desolation, O Mount Seir, and so will all of Edom. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

As thou rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will do to thee. Thou shall be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it, and they shall know that I am Jehovah.