Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 “Son of man, set your face against aMount Seir, and prophesy against itGen 36:8; Ezek 25:12; 36:5 3 and say to it, ‘This is what the Lord 1GOD says:“Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir,And I will areach out with My hand against youAnd make you a bdesolation and a waste.Heb YHWH, usually rendered LORD, and so throughout the chJer 6:12; 15:6; Ezek 25:13Jer 49:13, 17, 18; Ezek 35:7
5 Since you have had everlasting ahostility and have turned over the sons of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their disaster, at the time of the 1bpunishment of the end,Or injusticePs 137:7; Ezek 25:12, 15; 36:5; Amos 1:11; Obad 10Ezek 7:2; 21:25, 29 6 therefore as I live,” declares the Lord GOD, “I will certainly 1doom you to abloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you; since you have not hated bloodshed, therefore bloodshed will pursue you.Lit make bloodshed of youIs 63:2-6; Ezek 16:38; 32:6 7 I will make Mount Seir a waste and a desolation and I will eliminate from it one who passes through and returns. 8 I will afill its mountains with its slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines.Is 34:5, 6; Ezek 31:12; 32:4, 5; 39:4, 5 9 I will make you a permanent adesolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.Jer 49:13; Ezek 25:13
10 “Since you have asaid, ‘These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we will possess 1them,’ although the bLORD was there,Lit itPs 83:4-12; Ezek 36:2, 5Ps 48:1-3; 132:13, 14; Is 12:6; Ezek 48:35; Zeph 3:15 11 therefore as I live,” declares the Lord GOD, “I will deal with you aaccording to your anger and according to your envy which you displayed because of your hatred for them; so I will bmake Myself known among them when I judge you.Ps 137:7; Ezek 25:14; Amos 1:11Ps 9:16; 73:17, 18 12 Then you will know 1that I, the LORD, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel saying, ‘They are desolate; they have been agiven to us as food.’Or that I am the LORD: I have heardJer 50:7; Ezek 36:2 13 And you have 1aspoken arrogantly against Me and have multiplied your words against Me; bI Myself have heard it.”Lit magnified yourselves with your mouthIs 10:13, 14; 36:20; Jer 48:26, 42; Dan 11:36Jer 7:11; 29:23 14 This is what the Lord GOD says: “As all the aearth rejoices, I will make you a desolation.Is 44:23; 49:13; Jer 51:48 15 As you arejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, bso I will do to you. You will be a cdesolation, Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”’Jer 50:11; Lam 4:21Obad 15Is 34:5, 6; Ezek 35:3, 4