Ezekiel 35
Judgment on Mount Seir
1 Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,2 Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it,3 and say to it, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, O Mount Seir, I am against you; I will stretch out My hand against you, And make you most desolate;4 I shall lay your cities waste, And you shall be desolate. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.5 Because you have had an ancient hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, when their iniquity came to an end,6 therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.7 Thus I will make Mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it the one who leaves and the one who returns.8 And 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.9 I will make you perpetually desolate, and your cities shall be uninhabited; then 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 possess them, although the Lord was there,11 therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, I will do according 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.12 Then you shall know that I am the Lord. I have heard all your blasphemies which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are desolate; they are given to us to consume.13 Thus with your mouth you have boasted against Me and multiplied your words against Me; I have heard them. 14 Thus says the Lord God: The whole earth will rejoice when I make you desolate.15 As you rejoiced because the inheritance of the house of Israel was desolate, so I will do to you; you shall be desolate, O Mount Seir, as well as all of Edomall of it! Then they shall know that I am the Lord.
EZEKIEL 35
Edom Will Be a Wasteland
1 t The [Lord] said:
2 Ezekiel, son of man, condemn the people of Edomt
3 and say to them:
I, the [Lord] God,
am now your enemy!
And I will turn your nation
into an empty wasteland,
4 leaving your towns in ruins.
Your land will be a desert,
and then you will know
that I am the [Lord].
5 People of Edom, not only have you been Israel's longtime enemy, you simply watched when disaster wiped out its people as punishment for their sins. 6 And so, as surely as I am the living [Lord] God, you are guilty of murder and must be put to death. 7 I will destroy your nation and kill anyone who travels through it. 8 Dead bodies will cover your mountains and fill up your valleys,
9 and your land will lie in ruins forever. No one will live in your towns ever again. You will know that I am the [Lord].
10 You thought the nations of Judah and Israel belonged to you, and that you could take over their territory. But I am their God, 11 and as surely as I live, I will punish you for treating my people with anger and hatred. Then they will know that I, the [Lord], am punishing you! 12 And you will finally realize that I heard you laugh at their destruction and say their land was yours to take.
13 You even insulted me, but I heard it all.
14 Everyone on earth will celebrate when I destroy you, 15 just as you celebrated when Israel was destroyed. Your nation of Edom will be nothing but a wasteland. Then everyone will know that I am the [Lord].