A Prophecy against Edom

¹The word of the Lord came to me:

²‘Son of man, face Mount Seir and prophesy against it.[#35:2 Ezk 25:12–14]

³Say to it, “This is what the Lord God says:

Look! I am against you, Mount Seir.

I will stretch out my hand against you

and make you a desolate waste.

⁴I will turn your cities into ruins,

and you will become a desolation.

Then you will know that I am the Lord .

⁵‘ “Because you maintained a perpetual hatred and gave the Israelites over to the power of the sword in the time of their disaster, the time of final punishment,[#35:5 Ps 137:7; Ezk 25:15; #35:5 Ezk 7:2; 21:25,29]

⁶therefore, as I live #– #this is the declaration of the Lord God #– #I will destine you for bloodshed, and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, it will pursue you.[#35:6 Is 63:2–6; Ezk 16:38; 32:6]

⁷I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.[#35:7 Ezk 33:28]

⁸I will fill its mountains with the slain; those slain by the sword will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines.[#35:8 Ezk 31:12; 32:4–5]

⁹I will make you a perpetual desolation; your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord .

¹⁰‘ “Because you said, ‘These two nations and two lands will be mine, and we will possess them’ #– #though the Lord was there #– #[#35:10 Ps 48:1–3; Ezk 48:35]

¹¹therefore, as I live #– #this is the declaration of the Lord God #– #I will treat you according to the anger and jealousy you showed in your hatred of them. I will make myself known among them when I judge you.[#35:11 LXX reads you]

¹²Then you will know that I, the Lord , have heard all the blasphemies you uttered against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They are desolate. They have been given to us to devour! ’

¹³You boasted against me with your mouth, and spoke many words against me. I heard it myself![#35:13 Jr 48:26,42; Ob 12; Zph 2:8]

¹⁴‘ “This is what the Lord God says: While the whole world rejoices, I will make you a desolation.

¹⁵Just as you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it became a desolation, I will deal the same way with you: you will become a desolation, Mount Seir, and so will all Edom in its entirety. Then they will know that I am the Lord .”