Ezekiel 35
35
Against Edom
1The LORD’s word came to me: 2Human one, face Mount Seir, and prophesy against it. 3Say to it, The LORD God proclaims:
I’m against you, Mount Seir!
I will use my power against you.
I will make you into a desolate wasteland,
4I will turn your cities into ruins,
and you will become a desolation.
Then you will know that I am the LORD.
5Because you nursed an ancient grudge, you handed the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their distress, during their final punishment. 6So now the LORD God proclaims: As surely as I live, I will prepare you for blood, and blood will pursue you. Because you don’t hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you. 7I will turn Mount Seir into a desolate wasteland, when I cut off from it both passerby and homecomer. 8I will fill its highlands—your hills and your valleys, and all your ravines—with its slain. Those who are slain by the sword will fall on them. 9I will turn you into an eternal desolation. Your cities won’t be inhabited, and you will know that I am the LORD.
10You said, “These two nations and these two territories are mine. We will take possession of them even if the LORD is there.” 11Therefore, the LORD God proclaims: As surely as I live, I will act according to the anger and zeal you displayed when you dealt with them so hatefully. When I judge you, I will make myself known to them, 12and you will know that I am the LORD. I’ve heard the lies and libels that you uttered against Israel’s highlands when you said, “They are laid waste. They’ve been given to us to consume.” 13With your mouths you exalted yourselves against me and spoke your words against me. I myself heard it!
14The LORD God proclaims: As the whole world rejoices, I will turn you into a desolation. 15Just as you rejoiced over the house of Israel’s inheritance because it became desolate, so I will deal with you. Mount Seir, you will become a desolation, with all of Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
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