Ezekiel 35

1 And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying:

Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

2 'Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

“Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it.

3 and thou hast said to it: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I [am] against thee, O mount Seir, And have stretched out My hand against thee, And made thee 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 Thy cities a waste I make, and thou art a desolation, And thou hast known that I [am] Jehovah.

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

5 Because of thy having an enmity age-during, And thou dost 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, I live — an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Surely for blood I do appoint thee, And blood doth pursue thee, If blood thou hast not hated, Blood also doth pursue thee.

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, Thy hills, and thy valleys, and all thy 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 Desolations age-during I make thee, And thy cities do not return, And ye have known that I [am] Jehovah.

I will make you a perpetual desolation. Your cities will not be inhabited, but you will know that I am Yahweh.

10 Because of thy saying: The two nations and the two lands are mine, and we have possessed it, And Jehovah hath 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, I live — an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And I have done according to thine anger, And according to thine envy, With which thou hast wrought, Because of thy hatred against them, And I have been known among them when I judge thee.

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 thou hast known that I — Jehovah, I have heard all thy despisings that thou hast spoken Against mountains of Israel, saying: A desolation, to us they were given 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 ye magnify yourselves against Me with your mouth, And have made abundant against Me your words, I — 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 the Lord Jehovah: According to the rejoicing of the whole land, A desolation I make of thee.

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

15 According to thy joy at the inheritance of the house of Israel because of desolation, So I do to thee — a desolation thou art, O mount Seir, and all Edom — all of it, And they have known that I [am] Jehovah!

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.'”