Ezekiel 35

1 Moveover the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

2 Sonne of man, Set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesie against it,

“Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it.

3 And say vnto it, Thus sayth the Lord God, Behold, O mount Seir, I come against thee, and I wil stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee desolate and waste.

Say to it, 'The Lord Yahweh says this: Behold! I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will strike you with my hand and make you a desolation and a waste.

4 I wil lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt knowe that I am the Lord.

I will make your cities ruins, and you yourself will become desolate; then you will know that I am Yahweh.

5 Because thou hast had a perpetuall hatred and hast put the children of Israel to flight by the force of the sword in the time of their calamitie, when their iniquitie had an ende,

Because you have always been hostile to the people of Israel, and because you poured them out into the hands of the sword at the time of their distress, at the time their punishment was at its greatest.

6 Therefore as I liue, sayth the Lord God, I wil prepare thee vnto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: except thou hate blood, euen blood shall pursue thee.

Therefore, as I live—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration—I will prepare you for bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you! Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.

7 Thus will I make mount Seir desolate and waste, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.

I will make Mount Seir a complete desolation when I cut off from it anyone who passes through and returns again.

8 And I will fill his mountaines with his slayne men: in thine hilles, and in thy valleys and in all thy riuers shall they fall, that are slayne with the sworde.

I will fill its mountains with those who were killed; on your high hills and valleys and in all your streams those who were killed by the sword will fall.

9 I wil make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not returne, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lord.

I will make you a perpetual desolation. Your cities will not be inhabited, but you will know that I am Yahweh.

10 Because thou hast said, These two nations, and these two countreys shalbe mine, and we wil possesse them (seeing the Lord was there)

You have said, “These two nations and these two lands will become mine, and we will possess them,” even when Yahweh was present with them.

11 Therefore as I liue, sayth the Lord God, I wil euen do according to thy wrath, and according to thine indignation which thou hast vsed in thine hatred against them: and I wil make my selfe knowen among them whe I haue iudged thee.

Therefore, as I live—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration—so I will do according to your anger and according to your jealousy that you had in your hatred of Israel, and I will show myself to them when I judge you.

12 And thou shalt know, that I the Lord haue heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountaines of Israel, saying, They lye waste, they are giuen vs to be deuoured.

So you will know that I am Yahweh. I have heard all the insults you spoke against the mountains of Israel, when you said, “They have been destroyed; they have been given over to us to devour.”

13 Thus with your mouthes ye haue boasted against me, and haue multiplied your words against me: I haue heard them.

You exalted yourselves against me with what you said, and you multiplied the words you said against me; and I heard it all.

14 Thus sayth the Lord God, So shall all the world reioyce when I shall make thee desolate.

The Lord Yahweh says this: I will make you a desolation, while the entire earth rejoices.

15 As thou diddest reioyce at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I doe vnto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea wholly, and they shall know, that I am the Lord.

As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the people of Israel because of its desolation, I will do the same to you. You will become a desolation, Mount Seir, and all of Edom—all of it! Then they will know that I am Yahweh.'”