Jezekiel 35
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying,
2 Son of man, set your face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
“Son of man, set your 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 you have said to it, Thus said Lord YHWH: Behold, I [am] against you, O Mount Seir, And have stretched out My hand against you, And made you 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 make your cities a ruin, and you are a desolation, And you have known that I [am] YHWH.
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 of your having continuous enmity, And you saw the sons of Israel, By the hands 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—a declaration of Lord YHWH, Surely I appoint you for blood, And blood pursues you, If you have not hated blood, Blood also pursues you.
7 And I will make mount Seir a waste, and desolate, and I will destroy from off it men and cattle:
And I have given Mount Seir for a desolation and an astonishment, And have cut off from it him who is passing over and him who is returning,
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 filled his mountains with his wounded, Your hills, and your valleys, and all your streams, The pierced of the sword fall into them.
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 make you continuous desolations, And your cities do not return, And you have known that I [am] YHWH.
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 of your saying: The two nations and the two lands are mine, and we have possessed it, And YHWH has been 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—a declaration of Lord YHWH, And I have done according to your anger, And according to your envy, With which you have worked, Because of your hatred against them, And I have been known among them when I judge you.
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 you have known that I [am] YHWH, I have heard all your despisings that you have spoken Against mountains of Israel, saying, A desolation—they were given to us for food.
13 and you have spoken swelling words against me with your mouth: I have heard [them].
And you magnify yourselves against Me with your mouth, And have made your words abundant against Me; I have heard.
14 Thus says the Lord; When all the earth is rejoicing, I will make you desert.
Thus said Lord YHWH: According to the rejoicing of the whole land, I make a desolation of you.
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.
According to your joy at the inheritance of the house of Israel because of desolation, So I do to you—you are a desolation, O Mount Seir, and all Edom—all of it, And they have known that I [am] YHWH!”
