CHAPTER 35
1And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2“Man, set your face to Mount Seir and prophesy concerning it. 3And say to it, Thus said the Master the LORD:
Here I am against you, Mount Seir,
and I will reach out My hand against you
and turn you into a desolation and a devastation.
4Your towns I will make a ruin,
and you shall be a desolation,
and you shall know that I am the LORD.
5Inasmuch as you harbored age-old enmity and made the Israelites bleed with the sword in the time of their disaster, in the end-time of guilt. 6Therefore, as I live, said the Master, the LORD, I will surely turn you into blood, and blood shall pursue you. In blood did you hate, and blood shall surely pursue you. 7And I will turn Mount Seir into a desolation and a devastation and cut off from it anyone passing through or returning. 8And I will fill its mountains with its slain. Your hills and your valleys and all your watercourses—the slain by the sword shall fall in them.
9An everlasting desolation will I make you,
and none shall dwell in your towns,
and you shall know that I am the LORD.
10Inasmuch as you thought, ‘The two nations and the two lands shall be mine, and we shall take hold of them.’ But the LORD was there. 11Therefore, as I live, said the Master, the LORD: I will act according to your anger and according to your zeal as you acted from your hatred of them, and I will become known through them as I judge you. 12And you shall know that I am the LORD. I have heard all your jibes that you said of the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘A desolation! They have been given to us for food.’ 13And you were arrogant toward Me in your speech, and piled up words against Me. I have heard. 14Thus said the Master, the LORD: When all the earth rejoices, I will turn you into a desolation. 15Like your joy over the estate of the house of Israel for its becoming desolate, so will I do to you. Mount Seir shall be a desolation and all Edom, all of it, and they shall know that I am the LORD.”