Ezekiel 35:1-15
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.’
Footnotes
^ 35:10 Or are saying “These two nations and these two countries, they shall
^ 35:11 Or will do things appropriate to your
^ 35:11 Lit. your anger and jealousy
^ 35:11 Lit. known for you as I
^ 35:13 Conj. arrogant words
^ 35:14 Var. Says the Lord Jehovah, As all the earth makes merry I will make a desolation for you, as you
^ 35:15 Var. (with the longer form of verse 14) omit from As you made to same to you
