Ezekiel
35
- The word of the LORD came to me:
- "Son of man, set your face against
Mount Seir; prophesy against it
- and say: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD
says: I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against
you and make you a desolate waste.
- I will turn your towns into ruins and you
will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
- "'Because you harbored an ancient hostility
and delivered the Israelites over to the sword at the time of their calamity,
the time their punishment reached its climax,
- therefore as surely as I live, declares
the Sovereign LORD, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you.
Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.
- I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste
and cut off from it all who come and go.
- I will fill your mountains with the slain;
those killed by the sword will fall on your hills and in your valleys and
in all your ravines.
- I will make you desolate forever; your towns
will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
- "'Because you have said, "These
two nations and countries will be ours and we will take possession of them,"
even though I the LORD was there,
- therefore as surely as I live, declares
the Sovereign LORD, I will treat you in accordance with the anger and jealousy
you showed in your hatred of them and I will make myself known among them
when I judge you.
- Then you will know that I the LORD have
heard all the contemptible things you have said against the mountains of Israel.
You said, "They have been laid waste and have been given over to us to
devour."
- You boasted against me and spoke against
me without restraint, and I heard it.
- This is what the Sovereign LORD says: While
the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.
- Because you rejoiced when the inheritance
of the house of Israel became desolate, that is how I will treat you. You
will be desolate, O Mount Seir, you and all of Edom. Then they will know that
I am the LORD.'"
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