Jezekiel 35
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
And the word of Jehovah came 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 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.
and say unto it, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and I will make thee a desolation and an astonishment.
4 And I will cause desolation in your cities, and you shall be desolate, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be a desolation: and thou shalt know that I [am] Jehovah.
5 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:
Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword, in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;
6 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, verily you have sinned even to blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.
therefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will certainly appoint thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee; since thou hast not hated blood, blood shall pursue thee.
7 And I will make mount Seir a waste, and desolate, and I will destroy from off it men and cattle:
And I will make mount Seir a desolation and an astonishment, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth;
8 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.
and I will fill his mountains with his slain. In thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy water-courses shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
9 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.
I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not be inhabited: and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah.
10 Because you said, The two nations and the two countries shall be mine, and I shall inherit them; whereas the Lord is there:
Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it, whereas Jehovah was there:
11 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:
therefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will even do according to thine anger and according to thine envy, as thou hast done out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I shall judge thee.
12 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;
And thou shalt know that I Jehovah have heard all thy reproaches, which thou hast uttered against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to devour.
13 and you have spoken swelling words against me with your mouth: I have heard [them].
And ye have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard [them].
14 Thus says the Lord; When all the earth is rejoicing, I will make you desert.
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee a desolation.
15 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.
As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolated, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be a desolation, O mount Seir, and all Edom, the whole of it: and they shall know that I [am] Jehovah.
