Ezekiel 35
1 The word of the LORD came to me:
2 “Son of man, turn your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it.
3 And say to it: ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: «I am against you, Mount Seir. I will stretch out my hand against you and make you a desolation and a ruin.
4 I will make your cities a wasteland, and you will be desolate; then you will know that I am the LORD.
5 Because you have held an ancient hostility and handed the Israelites over to the sword’s power in their time of disaster, at the time of their final guilt.
6 Therefore, as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will make you blood, and blood will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, blood will pursue you.
7 I will make Mount Seir a desolation and a wasteland, and I will cut off from it everyone who comes and goes.
8 I will fill its mountains with its slain; on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines, those slain by the sword will fall.
9 I will make you a desolation forever, and your cities will not be inhabited again; then you will know that I am the LORD.
10 Because you said, ‘The two nations and the two lands will be mine, and we will take possession of them,’ though the LORD was there.
11 Therefore, as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will deal with you according to your anger and your jealousy, which you showed because of your hatred for them; and I will make myself known among them when I judge you.
12 Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard all your insults, which you spoke against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They are desolate; they have been given to us to devour.’
13 You spoke arrogantly against me and multiplied your words against me. I heard.
14 This is what the Lord GOD says: When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you a desolation.
15 Just as you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it had become desolate, so I will do to you: you will be desolate, Mount Seir, and all of Edom, all of it; then they will know that I am the LORD.»’”
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