Ezekiel 35:1–15

Judgment on Mount Seir

35Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ²“Son of man, set your face against ^aMount Seir and ^bprophesy against it, ³and say to it, ‘Thus says the Lord God:

“Behold, O Mount Seir, I am against you;

^cI will stretch out My hand against you,

And make you ¹most desolate;

⁴I shall lay your cities waste,

And you shall be desolate.

Then you shall know that I am the Lord.

^5d“Because you have had an ²ancient hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, ^ewhen their iniquity came to an end, ⁶therefore, as I live,” says the Lord God, “I will prepare you for ^fblood, and blood shall pursue you; ^gsince you have not hated ³blood, therefore blood shall pursue you. ⁷Thus I will make Mount Seir ⁴most desolate, and cut off from it the ^hone who leaves and the one who returns. ⁸And I will fill its mountains with the slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those who are slain by the sword shall fall. ⁹ⁱI will make you ⁵perpetually desolate, and your cities shall be uninhabited; ^jthen you shall know that I am the Lord.

¹⁰“Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will ^kpossess them,’ although ^lthe Lord was there, ¹¹therefore, as I live,” says the Lord God, “I will do ^maccording to your anger and according to the envy which you showed in your hatred against them; and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you. ¹²ⁿThen you shall know that I am the Lord. I have ^oheard all your ^pblasphemies which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They are desolate; they are given to us to consume.’ ¹³Thus ^qwith your mouth you have ⁶boasted against Me and multiplied your ^rwords against Me; I have heard them.”

¹⁴‘Thus says the Lord God: ^s“The whole earth will rejoice when I make you desolate. ^15tAs you rejoiced because the inheritance of the house of Israel was desolate, ^uso I will do to you; you shall be desolate, O Mount Seir, as well as all of Edom—all of it! Then they shall know that I am the Lord.” ’