1 M oreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying:

2 “ Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it,

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

3 a nd say to it, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Behold, O Mount Seir, I am against you; I will stretch out My hand against you, And make you most desolate;

and thou hast said to it: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I against thee, O mount Seir, And have stretched out My hand against thee, And made thee a desolation and an astonishment.

4 I shall lay your cities waste, And you shall be desolate. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.

Thy cities a waste I make, and thou art a desolation, And thou hast known that I Jehovah.

5 “ Because you have had an ancient hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, when their iniquity came to an end,

Because of thy having an enmity age-during, And thou dost saw the sons of Israel, By the hands of the sword, In the time of their calamity, In the time of the iniquity of the end:

6 t herefore, as I live,” says the Lord God, “I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.

Therefore, I live -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Surely for blood I do appoint thee, And blood doth pursue thee, If blood thou hast not hated, Blood also doth pursue thee.

7 T hus I will make Mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it the one who leaves and the one who returns.

And I have given mount Seir for a desolation and an astonishment, And have cut off from it him who is passing over and him who is returning,

8 A nd I will fill its mountains with the slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those who are slain by the sword shall fall.

And filled his mountains with his wounded, Thy hills, and thy valleys, and all thy streams, The pierced of the sword fall into them.

9 I will make you perpetually desolate, and your cities shall be uninhabited; then you shall know that I am the Lord.

Desolations age-during I make thee, And thy cities do not return, And ye have known that I Jehovah.

10 “ Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess them,’ although the Lord was there,

Because of thy saying: The two nations and the two lands are mine, and we have possessed it, And Jehovah hath been there;

11 t herefore, as I live,” says the Lord God, “I will do according to your anger and according to the envy which you showed in your hatred against them; and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.

Therefore, I live -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And I have done according to thine anger, And according to thine envy, With which thou hast wrought, Because of thy hatred against them, And I have been known among them when I judge thee.

12 T hen you shall know that I am the Lord. I have heard all your blasphemies which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They are desolate; they are given to us to consume.’

And thou hast known that I -- Jehovah, I have heard all thy despisings that thou hast spoken Against mountains of Israel, saying: A desolation, to us they were given for food.

13 T hus with your mouth you have boasted against Me and multiplied your words against Me; I have heard them. ”

And ye magnify yourselves against Me with your mouth, And have made abundant against Me your words, I -- I have heard.

14 ‘ Thus says the Lord God: “The whole earth will rejoice when I make you desolate.

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: According to the rejoicing of the whole land, A desolation I make of thee.

15 A s you rejoiced because the inheritance of the house of Israel was desolate, so I will do to you; you shall be desolate, O Mount Seir, as well as all of Edom—all of it! Then they shall know that I am the Lord.”’

According to thy joy at the inheritance of the house of Israel because of desolation, So I do to thee -- a desolation thou art, O mount Seir, and all Edom -- all of it, And they have known that I Jehovah!