Ezekiel

35 And Jehovah’s word came to me 2 “Man, set your face toward the highland of Seʽir and prophesy about it, 3 and say to it ‘Says the Lord Jehovah, Have at you, highland of Seʽir! I will stretch my hand over you and make you a desolation and a horror; 4 I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be a desolation and shall know that I am Jehovah. 5 Since you have harbored eternal enmity and laid the sons of Israel low by the sword in their time of calamity, at a time of final guilt, 6 therefore by my life, quoth the Lord Jehovah, for bloodshed you stand condemned and bloodshed shall pursue you, 7 and I will make the highland of Seʽir a desolation and a horror and will strip it of goers and comers, 8 and fill its mountains with bleeding bodies. In your hills and your valleys and all your gorges men stabbed down with swords shall fall. 9 I will reduce you to perpetual desolation, and your cities shall never be inhabited; and you shall know that I am Jehovah. 10* Whereas you are saying of these two nations and these two countries “They shall be mine and we will take possession of them,” when Jehovah was there, 11*** therefore by my life, quoth the Lord Jehovah, I will do the like of your deeds of anger and jealousy which you did to them out of your hatred, and will make myself known for the way I do justice on you. 12 And you shall know that I Jehovah heard the contumelious things you said of the highlands of Israel, “They are desolate; they are given to us to eat up,” 13* and your blustering against me and using plentiful words against me—I heard it. 14* Says the Lord Jehovah, 15* As you made merry for the estate of the house of Israel over its being desolate, I will do the same to you: you shall be a desolation, highland of Seʽir and all Edom, all of it, and you shall know that I am Jehovah.’