Judgment on Mount Seir
1Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
2“Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it,
3and 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 35:3 Lit. a desolation and a wastemost desolate;
4I 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 35:5 Or everlastingancient 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,
6therefore, as I live,” says the Lord God, “I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; since you have not hated 35:6 Or bloodshedblood, therefore blood shall pursue you.
7Thus I will make Mount Seir 35:7 Lit. a waste and a desolationmost desolate, and cut off from it the one who leaves and the one who returns.
8And 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.
9I will make you 35:9 Lit. desolated foreverperpetually 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,
11therefore, 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.
12Then 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.’
13Thus with your mouth you have 35:13 Lit. made yourself greatboasted against Me and multiplied your words against Me; I have heard them.”
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