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Major Prophets

Ezekiel 35

A Prophecy against Mount Seir

1Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

1And the word of YHWH came to me, saying:

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

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

3and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says:

Behold, I am against you,

O Mount Seir.

I will stretch out My hand against you

and make you a desolate waste.

3And say to it, thus says the Lord YHWH: Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir, and I will stretch out My hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and a waste.

4I will turn your cities into ruins,

and you will become a desolation.

Then you will know that I am the LORD.

4I will make your cities a ruin, and you will become a desolation. And you will know that I am YHWH.

5Because you harbored an ancient hatred and delivered the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their disaster at the final stage of their punishment,

5Because there has been for you an ancient hatred and you have poured out the sons of Israel upon the hands of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of the iniquity of the end,

6therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, it will pursue you.

6therefore, as I live, a declaration of the Lord YHWH, now unto blood I appoint you, and blood will pursue you; since you did not hate blood, blood will pursue you.

7I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.

7And I will make Mount Seir into an utter desolation, and I will cut off from it the one passing by and the one returning.

8I will fill its mountains with the slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines.

8And I will fill its mountains with the slain. On your hills, and in your valleys, and in all your ravines, those slain by the sword will fall in them.

9I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

9I will make you a desolation forever, and your cities will not be inhabited. You will know that I am YHWH.

10Because you have said, ‘These two nations and countries will be ours, and we will possess them,’ even though the LORD was there,

10Because you have said, ‘The two nations and the two lands will be unto me, and we will possess them,’ and YHWH has been there,

11therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will treat you according to the anger and jealousy you showed in your hatred against them, and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.

11therefore, as I live, a declaration of the Lord YHWH, I will do according to your anger, and according to the jealousy with which you acted in your hatred against them, and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.

12Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard every contemptuous word you uttered against the mountains of Israel when you said, ‘They are desolate; they are given to us to devour!’

12And you will know that I am YHWH. I have heard all your despisings that you have said about the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They are desolate; they are given to us for food.’

13You boasted against Me with your mouth and multiplied your words against Me. I heard it Myself!

13Thus you have boasted against Me with your mouth, and you have multiplied against Me your words—I have heard it Myself.

14This is what the Lord GOD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

14Thus says the Lord YHWH: According to the rejoicing of all the earth, I will make for you a desolation.

15As you rejoiced when the inheritance of the house of Israel became desolate, so will I do to you. You will become a desolation, O Mount Seir, and so will all of Edom. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

15According to your rejoicing at the inheritance of the house of Israel, upon that it has become desolate, so will I do to you! You will become a desolation, O Mount Seir, and all of Edom—all of it—and they will know that I am YHWH.