Ezekiel 35

1The word of Yahweh came to me:

2“Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it.

3Say to it, ‘This is what Lord Yahweh says: 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 Yahweh.

5Because you have held an age-old hostility and handed the people of Israel over to the power of the sword at the time of their disaster, the time of their final punishment,

6therefore, as I live, declares Lord Yahweh, I will hand you over to bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.

7I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste, and I will cut off from it all who pass through and return.

8I will fill its mountains with its slain. On your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines, those killed by the sword will fall.

9I will make you a desolation forever, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

10Because you said, “These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we will take possession of them”—even though Yahweh was there—

11therefore, as I live, declares Lord Yahweh, I will deal with you according to the anger and jealousy you showed in your hatred toward them. I will make myself known among them when I judge you.

12Then you will know that I am Yahweh. I have heard all the contemptuous things you said against the mountains of Israel: “They are desolate; they have been given to us to devour.”

13You made yourselves great against me with your mouth and multiplied your words against me. I heard it.

14This is what Lord Yahweh says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you a desolation.

15Just as you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will become a desolation, Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’”