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 saith 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 an utter desolation;
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 shalt be desolate, and thou shalt 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 bearest a perpetual hatred, and deliverest up the sons of Israel to the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time when iniquity bringeth destruction:
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, saith the Lord Jehovah, surely, to blood will I bring thee, and blood shall pursue thee; since thou hast not hated blood, 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 will I make Mount Seir an utter desolation, and cut off from it him that passeth out, and him that returneth.
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 his valleys with the slain. Upon thy hills and in thy plains and in thy valleys shall fall they that 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 hast said, “These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we shall possess them,” 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, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will do according to thine anger and according to thine envy which in thy hatred against them thou hast practised, and I will make myself known to them when I 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 shalt know that I am Jehovah, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying: “They are laid desolate; to us are they given to be devoured.”
13 You boasted against Me with your mouth and multiplied your words against Me. I heard it Myself!
Thus with your mouth have ye magnified yourselves against me, and multiplied your words against me; I have heard them.
14 This is what the Lord GOD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When the whole land rejoiceth, I will prepare desolation for thee.
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 didst rejoice over my inheritance, the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to thee! Mount Seir shall be desolate, and all Edom, even all of it; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
