Ezekiel - 35

1 - Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

2 - Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir - , and prophesy against it,

3 - And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir - , I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.

4 - I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

5 - Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel - by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:

6 - Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.

7 - Thus will I make mount Seir - most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.

8 - And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.

9 - I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

10 - Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there:

11 - Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.

12 - And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel - , saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.

13 - Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.

14 - Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.

15 - As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel - , because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir - , and all Idumea, even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.