Ezekiel 35
1 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
And 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 thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy concerning it, and say to it:
3 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.
Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against thee, mount Seir, and I will stretch forth my hand upon thee, and I will make thee desolate and waste.
4 I will make your cities ruins, and you yourself will become desolate; then you will know that I am Yahweh.
I will destroy thy cities, and thou shalt be desolate: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
5 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.
Because thou hast been an everlasting enemy, and hast shut up the children of Israel in the hands of the sword in the time of their affliction, in the time of their last iniquity.
6 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.
Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will deliver thee up to blood, and blood shall pursue thee: and whereas thou hast hated blood, blood shall pursue thee.
7 I will make Mount Seir a complete desolation when I cut off from it anyone who passes through and returns again.
And I will make mount Seir waste and desolate: and I will take away from it him that goeth and him that returneth.
8 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.
And I will fill his mountains with his men that are slain: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in thy torrents they shall fall that are slain with the sword.
9 I will make you a perpetual desolation. Your cities will not be inhabited, but you will know that I am Yahweh.
I will make thee everlasting desolations, and thy cities shall not be inhabited: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord God.
10 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.
Because thou hast said: The two nations, and the two lands shall be mine, and I will possess them by inheritance: whereas the Lord was there.
11 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.
Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will do according to thy wrath, and according to thy envy, which thou hast exercised in hatred to them: and I will be made known by them, when I shall have judged thee.
12 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.”
And thou shalt know that I the Lord have heard all thy reproaches, that thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying: They are desolate, they are given to us to consume.
13 You exalted yourselves against me with what you said, and you multiplied the words you said against me; and I heard it all.
And you rose up against me with your mouth, and have derogated from me by your words: I have heard them.
14 The Lord Yahweh says this: I will make you a desolation, while the entire earth rejoices.
Thus saith the Lord God: When the whole earth shall rejoice, I will make thee a wilderness.
15 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.'”
As thou best rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was laid waste, so will I do to thee: thou shalt be laid waste, O mount Seir, and all Idumea: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
