Ezekiel 35

Revised Geneva Translation

35 Moreover, the Word of the LORD came to me, saying:

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

³ “and say to it, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, O Mount Seir, I come against you. And I will stretch out My Hand against you; and I will make you desolate and waste.

⁴ “I will lay your cities waste; and you shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am the LORD.

⁵ “Because you have had a perpetual hatred —and have put the children of Israel to flight by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, when iniquity had ended —

⁶ “therefore, as I live,” says the Lord GOD, “I will prepare you for blood; and blood shall pursue you. Since you have not hated blood, blood shall pursue you.

⁷ “Thus will I make Mount Seir desolate and waste and cut off from it him who passes out and him who returns.

⁸ “And I will fill his mountains with his slain men. In your hills and in your valleys and in all your rivers shall they fall who are killed with the sword.

⁹ “I will make you perpetual desolations; and your cities shall not return. And 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’ (seeing the LORD was there),

¹¹ “therefore, as I live,” says the Lord GOD, “I will do according to your wrath, and according to your indignation, which you have used in your hatred against them. And I will make Myself known among them when I have judged you.

¹² “And you shall know that I, the LORD, have heard all the blasphemies which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They lie waste! They are given us to be devoured!’

¹³ “Thus with your mouths you have boasted against Me. And I have multiplied your words against Me. I have heard.”

¹⁴ ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “So shall all the world rejoice when I shall make you desolate.

¹⁵ “As you rejoiced at the inheritance of the House of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you. You shall be desolate, O Mount Seir, and all Idumea wholly! And they shall know that I am the LORD.”’