Ezekiel 35

1 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

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

2 Son of man, let your face be turned to Mount Seir, and be a prophet against it,

Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy concerning it, and say to it:

3 And say to it, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am against you, O Mount Seir, and my hand will be stretched out against you, and I will make you a waste and a cause for wonder.

Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against thee, mount Seir, and I will stretch forth my hand upon thee, and I will make thee desolate and waste.

4 I will make your towns unpeopled and you will be a waste; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

I will destroy thy cities, and thou shalt be desolate: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

5 Because yours has been a hate without end, and you have given up the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their trouble, in the time of the punishment of the end:

Because thou hast been an everlasting enemy, and hast shut up the children of Israel in the hands of the sword in the time of their affliction, in the time of their last iniquity.

6 For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have been sinning through blood, blood will come after you.

Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will deliver thee up to blood, and blood shall pursue thee: and whereas thou hast hated blood, blood shall pursue thee.

7 And I will make Mount Seir a cause for wonder and a waste, cutting off from it all comings and goings.

And I will make mount Seir waste and desolate: and I will take away from it him that goeth and him that returneth.

8 I will make his mountains full of those who have been put to death; in your valleys and in all your water-streams men will be falling by the sword.

And I will fill his mountains with his men that are slain: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in thy torrents they shall fall that are slain with the sword.

9 I will make you waste for ever, and your towns will be unpeopled: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

I will make thee everlasting desolations, and thy cities shall not be inhabited: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord God.

10 Because you have said, The two nations and the two countries are to be mine, and we will take them for our heritage; though the Lord was there:

Because thou hast said: The two nations, and the two lands shall be mine, and I will possess them by inheritance: whereas the Lord was there.

11 For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, I will do to you as you have done in your wrath and in your envy, which you have made clear in your hate for them; and I will make clear to you who I am when you are judged by me.

Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will do according to thy wrath, and according to thy envy, which thou hast exercised in hatred to them: and I will be made known by them, when I shall have judged thee.

12 And you will see that I the Lord have had knowledge of all the bitter things which you have said against the mountains of Israel, saying, They have been made waste, they are given to us to take for our heritage.

And thou shalt know that I the Lord have heard all thy reproaches, that thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying: They are desolate, they are given to us to consume.

13 And you have made yourselves great against me with your mouths, increasing your words against me; and it has come to my ears.

And you rose up against me with your mouth, and have derogated from me by your words: I have heard them.

14 This is what the Lord has said: Because you were glad over my land when it was a waste, so will I do to you:

Thus saith the Lord God: When the whole earth shall rejoice, I will make thee a wilderness.

15 You will become a waste, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

As thou best rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was laid waste, so will I do to thee: thou shalt be laid waste, O mount Seir, and all Idumea: and they shall know that I am the Lord.