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 you shall prophesy about it, and you shall say to 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.

Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, mount Seir, and I will extend my hand over you, and I will make you desolate and deserted.

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 tear down your cities, and you will be deserted. 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,

For you have been a continual adversary, and you have enclosed the sons of Israel, by the hands of the sword, in the time of their affliction, in the time of extreme iniquity.

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.

Because of this, as I live, says the Lord God, I will hand you over to blood, and blood will pursue you. Even though you have hated blood, blood will 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 desolate and deserted. And I will take away from it the one who departs and the one 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 up its mountains with its slain. In your hills, and in your valleys, as well as in your torrents, the slain will fall by 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 hand you over to everlasting desolations, and your cities will not be inhabited. And you shall know that I am the Lord God.

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

For you have said, ‘Two nations and two lands will be mine, and I will possess them as an inheritance,’ though the Lord was in that place.

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.

Because of this, as I live, says the Lord God, I will act in accord with your own wrath, and in accord with your own zeal, by which you have acted with hatred toward them. And I will be made known by them, when I will have judged 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, the Lord, have heard all your disgraces, which you have spoken about the mountains of Israel, saying: ‘They are deserted. They have been given to us to devour.’

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

And you rose up against me with your mouth, and you disparaged against me with your words. I have heard.

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

Thus says the Lord God: When the whole earth will rejoice, I will reduce you to solitude.

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.

Just as you have rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, when it was laid waste, so will I act toward you. You will be laid waste, O mount Seir, with all of Idumea. And they shall know that I am the Lord.”