Ezekiel 35

1 And there is a word of YHWH 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 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 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 I make your cities a ruin, and you are a desolation, And you have known that I [am] YHWH.

I make your cities a ruin, and you are a desolation, And you have known that I [am] YHWH.

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 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—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] 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 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,

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 filled his mountains with his wounded, Your hills, and your valleys, and all your streams, The pierced of the sword fall into them.

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 make you continuous desolations, And your cities do not return, And you have known that I [am] YHWH.

I make you continuous desolations, And your cities do not return, And you have known that I [am] YHWH.

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 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—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] 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 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.

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 magnify yourselves against Me with your mouth, And have made your words abundant against Me; I have heard.

And you magnify yourselves against Me with your mouth, And have made your words abundant against Me; I have heard.

14 Thus said Lord YHWH: According to the rejoicing of the whole land, I make a desolation of you.

Thus said Lord YHWH: According to the rejoicing of the whole land, I make a desolation of you.

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!”

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!”