Ezekiel 35

The word of the LORD came to me: “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it. Say to it, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: I am against you, Mount Seir. I will stretch out my hand against you and make you a desolation and a devastation. I will lay your cities waste, and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD. Because you maintained enduring hostility and delivered the people of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, the time of final punishment, therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will destine you for bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you. Because you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you. I will make Mount Seir a desolation and a devastation and cut off from it anyone coming or going. I will fill its mountains with its slain. On your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines, those slain by the sword will fall. I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be restored. Then you will know that I am the LORD. Because you said, “These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we will take possession of it,” though the LORD was there, therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will deal with you according to the anger and jealousy you showed in your hatred of them. I will make myself known among them when I judge you. You will know that I, the LORD, have heard all the insults you spoke against the mountains of Israel, saying, “They are desolate; they have been given to us to devour.” You have boasted against me with your mouths and multiplied your words against me. I have heard. This is what the Lord GOD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you a desolation. As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will deal with you. You will be desolate, Mount Seir and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”

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