Judgment on Mount Seir
1 Moreover the word of theLordcame to me, saying,
2 “Son of man, set your face againstMount Seir andprophesy against it,
3 and say to it, ‘Thus says the LordGod:
“Behold, O Mount Seir, Iamagainst 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 IamtheLord.
5 “Because you have had an ancient hatred, and have shedthebloodofthe children of Israel by the power of the sword at the time of their calamity,when their iniquitycametoanend,
6 therefore,asI live,” says the LordGod, “I will prepare you forblood, 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 theone 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 IamtheLord.
10 “Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we willpossess them,’ althoughtheLordwas there,
11 therefore,asI live,” says the LordGod, “I will doaccording 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 IamtheLord. I haveheard all yourblasphemies which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They are desolate; they are given to us to consume.’
13 Thuswith your mouth you have boasted against Me and multiplied yourwords against Me; I have heardthem.”
14 ‘Thus says the LordGod:“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 Edom—all of it! Then they shall know that IamtheLord.” ’