Ezekiel 35

1 Yahweh gave me another message. He said,

and to be word LORD to(wards) me to/for to say

2 “You human, turn toward Edom and prophesy what will happen to its people. Say that this is what Yahweh says to them:

son: child man to set: make face your upon mountain: mount (Mount) Seir and to prophesy upon him

3 ‘You who live near Seir Mountain [in Edom], I am opposed to you, and I will use my power [MTY] to strike you and cause your country to become a wasteland.

and to say to/for him thus to say Lord YHWH/God look! I to(wards) you mountain: mount (Mount) Seir and to stretch hand my upon you and to give: make you devastation and devastation

4 I will cause your country to be ruined and desolate. When that happens, people will know that I, Yahweh, [have the power to do what I say that I will do].

city your desolation to set: put and you(m. s.) devastation to be and to know for I LORD

5 You have always been enemies of the Israeli people. You [rejoiced] when they experienced a great disaster: [their enemies attacked them with] swords, when I punished them [for the sins that they had committed].

because to be to/for you enmity forever: enduring and to pour [obj] son: descendant/people Israel upon hand: power sword in/on/with time calamity their in/on/with time iniquity: punishment end

6 Therefore, I, Yahweh the Lord, declare that as surely as I am alive, I will allow [your enemies] to slaughter [MTY] you and continue to slaughter you. You were happy when [LIT] others were slaughtered;

to/for so alive I utterance Lord YHWH/God for to/for blood to make you and blood to pursue you if: surely yes not blood to hate and blood to pursue you

7 so I will cause Seir Mountain to be abandoned/deserted, and I will get rid of anyone who enters it or leaves it.

and to give: make [obj] mountain: mount (Mount) Seir to/for desolation and devastation and to cut: eliminate from him to pass and to return: return

8 I will cause your mountains to be filled with [the corpses of] those who have been killed. The corpses of those who have been killed by [your enemies’] swords will lie on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines.

and to fill [obj] mountain: mount his slain: killed his hill your and valley your and all channel your slain: killed sword to fall: kill in/on/with them

9 I will cause your land to be deserted forever. No one will live in your towns again. When that happens, you will know that I, Yahweh, [have the power to do what I say that I will do].

devastation forever: enduring to give: make you and city your not (to return: return *Q(K)*) and to know for I LORD

10 You people said, “Israel and Judah will become ours. We will take over their territory!” You said that even though I, Yahweh, was still there [and protecting them].

because to say you [obj] two [the] nation and [obj] two [the] land: country/planet to/for me to be and to possess: take her and LORD there to be

11 Therefore, I, Yahweh the Lord, declare that as surely as I am alive, I will punish [MTY] you for being angry with my people, envying them, and hating them.

to/for so alive I utterance Lord YHWH/God and to make: do like/as face: anger your and like/as jealousy your which to make: do from hating your in/on/with them and to know in/on/with them like/as as which to judge you

12 Then you will know that I, Yahweh, have heard all the disgusting things that you have said about the mountains in Israel. You said that they have been ruined/devastated, and that they have been given to you to occupy [MET].

and to know for I LORD to hear: hear [obj] all contempt your which to say upon mountain: mount Israel to/for to say (be desolate: destroyed *Q(K)*) to/for us to give: give to/for food

13 When you insulted me, I heard all that you said about me.

and to magnify upon me in/on/with lip your and be abundant upon me word your I to hear: hear

14 So this is what I, Yahweh the Lord, say: You people who live on Seir Mountain and in all the other places in Edom, when I cause your land to become desolate, everyone in the entire world will rejoice.

thus to say Lord YHWH/God like/as to rejoice all [the] land: country/planet devastation to make to/for you

15 You were happy when the land [MTY] of the Israeli people became desolate, so I will cause your land to become desolate. When that happens, people will know that I, Yahweh, [have the power to do what I say that I will do].’”

like/as joy your to/for inheritance house: household Israel upon which be desolate: destroyed so to make: do to/for you devastation to be mountain: mount (Mount) Seir and all Edom all her and to know for I LORD