Ezekiel 35

Prophecy Directed at Edom

1 And the word of Yahweh came*Literally "was" to me, saying,*Literally "to say"2 "Son of man,*Or "mortal," or "son of humankind" set your face against the mountain of Seir and prophesy against it, 3 and you must say to it, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am against you, mountain of Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and a wasteland. 4 Your cities I will make ruins, and you will be a desolation, and then you will know that I am Yahweh, 5 because there has been to you an ancient hostility,*Literally "enmity of eternity" and you handed over the Israelites*Literally "sons/children of Israel" to the power of the sword at the time of their disaster, at the time of their final punishment.*Literally "the time of punishment of end"6 Therefore as I live,"*Literally "live I" declares*Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh, "Certainly to blood guilt I will prepare you and blood*Or "blood vengeance" will pursue; since*Literally "if not" you did not hate blood,*Literally "not blood you hated" it will pursue you. 7 And I will make the mountain of Seir into a desolation and ruin, and I will cut off from it both he who is crossing over and he who is returning. 8 And I will fill its mountains with its slain; your hills and your valleys and all of your watercourses, the slain by the sword will fall in them. 9 An everlasting desolation*Literally "of eternity/endless ages" I will make you, and your cities will not return, and you will know that I am Yahweh. 10 I do this because of your saying,*Or "thinking" ‘The two nations and the two lands, they will be mine,*Literally "to me" and we will take possession of it,’ and yet Yahweh was there. 11 Therefore, as I live,"*Literally "live I" declares*Literally "declaration of" the Lord Yahweh, "so I will deal with you according to your anger and according to your jealousy that you did,*Or "showed" or "acted on" because of your hatred against them, and I will make myself known among them when I judge you. 12 And you will know that I, Yahweh, I have heard all of your contemptible words that you said*Or "spoke" against the mountains of Israel, saying,*Literally "to say" ‘They will be desolate; they are given to us as food.’ 13 And you magnified yourself against me with your insolent speech,*Literally "with your mouth" and you spoke voluminously against me with your words—I heard! 14 Thus the Lord Yahweh says, ‘As the whole world rejoices,*Literally "as/like the rejoicing of all of the world" I will make you a desolation. 15 Like your rejoicing over the inheritance of the house of Israel*Literally "as/like rejoicing your for the inheritance of the house of Israel" because*Literally "because that" it was desolate, I will do to you; you will be a desolation, mountain of Seir and all of Edom, indeed all of it; and they will know that I am Yahweh.’ " ’