Ezekiel 35

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

And there is a word of Jehovah unto 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 thou hast said to it: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I [am] against thee, O mount Seir, And have stretched out My hand against thee, And made 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.

Thy cities a waste I make, and thou art a desolation, And thou hast known 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 of thy having an enmity age-during, And thou dost saw the sons of Israel, By the hands 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, I live — an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Surely for blood I do appoint thee, And blood doth pursue thee, If blood thou hast not hated, Blood also doth pursue thee.

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

And I have given mount Seir for a desolation and an astonishment, And have cut off from it him who is passing over and him who is returning,

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 filled his mountains with his wounded, Thy hills, and thy valleys, and all thy streams, The pierced of the sword fall into them.

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

Desolations age-during I make thee, And thy cities do not return, And ye have known 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 of thy saying: The two nations and the two lands are mine, and we have possessed it, And Jehovah hath been 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, I live — an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And I have done according to thine anger, And according to thine envy, With which thou hast wrought, Because of thy hatred against them, And I have been known among 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 hast known that I — Jehovah, I have heard all thy despisings that thou hast spoken Against mountains of Israel, saying: A desolation, to us they were given for food.

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

And ye magnify yourselves against Me with your mouth, And have made abundant against Me your words, I — I have heard.

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

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: According to the rejoicing of the whole land, A desolation I make of 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.

According to thy joy at the inheritance of the house of Israel because of desolation, So I do to thee — a desolation thou art, O mount Seir, and all Edom — all of it, And they have known that I [am] Jehovah!