35And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,^a ²“Son of man,^b set your face against the mountain of Seir and prophesy against it, ³and you must say to it, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Look! I am against you, mountain of Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and a wasteland. ⁴Your cities I will make ruins, and you will be a desolation, and then you will know that I am Yahweh, ⁵because there has been to you an ancient hostility,^c and you handed over the Israelites^d to the power of the sword at the time of their disaster, at the time of their final punishment.^e ⁶Therefore as I live,”^f declares^g the Lord Yahweh, “Certainly to blood guilt I will prepare you and blood^h will pursue; sinceⁱ you did not hate blood,^j it will pursue you. ⁷And I will make the mountain of Seir into a desolation and ruin, and I will cut off from it both he who is crossing over and he who is returning. ⁸And I will fill its mountains with its slain; your hills and your valleys and all of your watercourses, the slain by the sword will fall in them. ⁹An everlasting desolation^k I will make you, and your cities will not return, and you will know that I am Yahweh. ¹⁰I do this because of your saying,^l ‘The two nations and the two lands, they will be mine,^m and we will take possession of it,’ and yet Yahweh was there. ¹¹Therefore, as I live,”ⁿ declares^o the Lord Yahweh, “so I will deal with you according to your anger and according to your jealousy that you did,^p because of your hatred against them, and I will make myself known among them when I judge you. ¹²And you will know that I, Yahweh, I have heard all of your contemptible words that you said^q against the mountains of Israel, saying,^r ‘They will be desolate; they are given to us as food.’ ¹³And you magnified yourself against me with your insolent speech,^s and you spoke voluminously against me with your words—I heard! ¹⁴Thus the Lord Yahweh says, ‘As the whole world rejoices,^t I will make you a desolation. ¹⁵Like your rejoicing over the inheritance of the house of Israel^u because^v it was desolate, I will do to you; you will be a desolation, mountain of Seir and all of Edom, indeed all of it; and they will know that I am Yahweh.’ ” ’

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Footnotes

aLiterally “to say”
bOr “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
cLiterally “enmity of eternity”
dLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
eLiterally “the time of punishment of end”
fLiterally “live I”
gLiterally “declaration of”
hOr “blood vengeance”
iLiterally “if not”
jLiterally “not blood you hated”
kLiterally “of eternity/endless ages”
lOr “thinking”
mLiterally “to me”
nLiterally “live I”
oLiterally “declaration of”
pOr “showed” or “acted on”
qOr “spoke”
rLiterally “to say”
sLiterally “with your mouth”
tLiterally “as/like the rejoicing of all of the world”
uLiterally “as/like rejoicing your for the inheritance of the house of Israel”
vLiterally “because that”