Prophecy Against Mount Seir
1The word of the
2“Son of man, turn toward Mount Seir, and prophesy against it.
3Say to it, ‘This is what the sovereign
“‘Look, I am against you, Mount Seir;
I will stretch out my hand against you
and turn you into a desolate ruin.
4I will lay waste your cities;
and you will become desolate.
Then you will know that I am the
5“‘You have shown unrelenting hostility and poured the people of Israel onto the blades of a sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment.
6Therefore, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign
7I will turn Mount Seir into a desolate ruin; I will cut off from it the one who passes through or returns.
8I will fill its mountains with its dead; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines, those killed by the sword will fall.
9I will turn you into a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the
10“‘You said, “These two nations, these two lands will be mine, and we will possess them,” – although the
11therefore, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign
12Then you will know that I, the
13You exalted yourselves against me with your speech and hurled many insults against me – I have heard them all!
14This is what the sovereign
15As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so will I deal with you – you will be desolate, Mount Seir, and all of Edom – all of it! Then they will know that I am the