Jezekiel 35

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

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

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

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

4 And I will cause desolation in your cities, and you shall be desolate, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

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

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 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,

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

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.

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

Thus will I make mount Seir desolate and waste, 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 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.

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

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 countreys shalbe mine, and we wil possesse them (seeing the Lord 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 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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.