Ezekiel 35

1 And 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 you shall prophesy about it, and you shall say to it:

Son of man, set your face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

3 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.

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

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 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.

Therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, verily you have sinned even to blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.

7 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.

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

8 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.

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 hand you over to everlasting desolations, and your cities will not be inhabited. And you shall know that I am the Lord God.

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 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.

Because you said, The two nations and the two countries shall be mine, and I shall inherit them; whereas the Lord is there:

11 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.

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 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.’

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

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

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

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

15 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.”

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.