Ezekiel 35
1 And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying,
Moreover, the word of the LORD came 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 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.
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 make your cities a ruin, and you are a desolation, And you have known that I [am] YHWH.
I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
5 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:
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—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.
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 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,
I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.
8 And filled his mountains with his wounded, Your hills, and your valleys, and all your streams, The pierced of the sword fall into them.
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 make you continuous desolations, And your cities do not return, And you have known that I [am] YHWH.
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 of your saying: The two nations and the two lands are mine, and we have possessed it, And YHWH has been 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—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.
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 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.
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 magnify yourselves against Me with your mouth, And have made your words abundant against Me; I have heard.
You boasted against Me with your mouth and multiplied your words against Me. I heard it Myself!
14 Thus said Lord YHWH: According to the rejoicing of the whole land, I make a desolation of you.
This is what the Lord GOD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.
15 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!”
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.
