Ezekiel 35

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

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

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

Son of man, set your 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 God; Behold, I am against you, O mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and will make you a waste, and you shall be made desolate.

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

And I will cause desolation in your cities, and you shall be desolate, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

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 you have been a perpetual enemy, and have laid wait craftily for the house of Israel, with the hand of enemies with a sword, in the time of injustice, at the last:

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 God, verily you have sinned even to blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.

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

And I will make mount Seir a waste, and desolate, and I will destroy from off it men and cattle:

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 your hills and your valleys with slain men, and in all your plains there shall fall in you men 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 you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited any more: and you shall know that I am the Lord.

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 you said, The two nations and the two countries shall be mine, and I shall inherit them; whereas the Lord is 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, I will even deal with you according to your enmity, and I will be made known to you when I shall judge you:

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 you shall know that I am the Lord. I have heard the voice of your blasphemies, whereas you have said, The desert mountains of Israel are given to us for food;

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

and you have spoken swelling words against me with your mouth: I have heard [them].

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

Thus says the Lord; When all the earth is rejoicing, I will make you desert.

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.

You shall be desert, O mount Seir, and all Idumea; and it shall be utterly consumed: and you shall know that I am the Lord their God.