Ezekiel 35

1 And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying,

Then the word of Yahweh 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.

Say to it, 'The Lord Yahweh says this: Behold! I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will strike you with my hand and make you a desolation and a waste.

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

I will make your cities ruins, and you yourself will become desolate; then you will know that I am Yahweh.

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 have always been hostile to the people of Israel, and because you poured them out into the hands of the sword at the time of their distress, at the time their punishment was at its greatest.

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—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration—I will prepare you for bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you! Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed 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 complete desolation when I cut off from it anyone who passes through and returns again.

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 those who were killed; on your high hills and valleys and in all your streams those who were killed by the sword will fall.

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. Your cities will not be inhabited, but you will know that I am Yahweh.

10 Because of your saying: The two nations and the two lands are mine, and we have possessed it, And YHWH has been there;

You have said, “These two nations and these two lands will become mine, and we will possess them,” even when Yahweh was present with them.

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—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration—so I will do according to your anger and according to your jealousy that you had in your hatred of Israel, and I will show myself to 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.

So you will know that I am Yahweh. I have heard all the insults you spoke against the mountains of Israel, when you said, “They have been destroyed; they have been given over 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 exalted yourselves against me with what you said, and you multiplied the words you said against me; and I heard it all.

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

The Lord Yahweh says this: I will make you a desolation, while the entire earth rejoices.

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 over the inheritance of the people of Israel because of its desolation, I will do the same to you. You will become a desolation, Mount Seir, and all of Edom—all of it! Then they will know that I am Yahweh.'”