Ezekiel 35 Again a word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Again a word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² Son of man, set thy face against the mountain of Seir, and prophesy against it ³ and say to it, Thus saith the Lord, Lord, Behold I am against thee, mountain of Seir; and I will stretch forth my hand against thee, and make thee a desert and thou shalt be desolate. ⁴ And I will make a devastation among thy cities, and thou shalt be a desert and shalt know that I am the Lord. ⁵ Because thou hast been a perpetual enemy and didst deceitfully lie in wait for the house of Israel; hast been a sword in the hand of enemies, in the time of revolt, in their last extremities; ⁶ therefore as I live, saith the Lord, Lord, as thou hast sinned unto blood, blood shall pursue thee. ⁷ And I will make the mountain of Seir an entire desert; and I will destroy from it men and cattle, ⁸ and fill with the wounded thy hills and thy vallies: and in all thy plains, the victims of the sword shall fall in thee. ⁹ I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities shall no more be inhabited, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. ¹⁰ Because thou saidst, "The two nations and the two countries shall be mine, and I will possess them, though the Lord is there." ¹¹ Therefore, as I live saith the Lord, I will deal with thee according to thine enmity, and be made known to thee, when I judge thee; ¹² and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. I have heard the sound of thy revilings; because thou saidst, "The waste mountains of Israel are given us to be devoured, ¹³ "and didst utter swelling words against me with thy mouth: I heard them: therefore thus saith the Lord, to the joy of the whole land I will make thee a desert. ¹⁴ Thou mountain of Seir shalt be a desert; and all Idumea shall be destroyed; and thou shalt know that I the Lord am their God.