Ezekiel 35
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy concerning it, and say to it:
“Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it,
3 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.
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.
4 I will destroy thy cities, and thou shalt be desolate: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
5 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.
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,
6 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.
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.
7 And I will make mount Seir waste and desolate: and I will take away from it him that goeth and him that returneth.
I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.
8 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.
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.
9 I will make thee everlasting desolations, and thy cities shall not be inhabited: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord God.
I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
10 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.
Because you have said, ‘These two nations and countries will be ours, and we will possess them,’ even though the LORD was there,
11 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.
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.
12 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.
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!’
13 And you rose up against me with your mouth, and have derogated from me by your words: I have heard them.
You boasted against Me with your mouth and multiplied your words against Me. I heard it Myself!
14 Thus saith the Lord God: When the whole earth shall rejoice, I will make thee a wilderness.
This is what the Lord GOD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.
15 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.
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.
