Ezekiel 35

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Against Edom

35 The Lord’s word came to me: ²Human one, face Mount Seir, and prophesy against it. ³Say to it, The Lord God proclaims:

I’m against you, Mount Seir!
    I will use my power against you.
I will make you into a desolate wasteland,
⁴    I will turn your cities into ruins,
    and you will become a desolation.
    Then you will know that I am the Lord.

⁵Because you nursed an ancient grudge, you handed the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their distress, during their final punishment. ⁶So now the Lord God proclaims: As surely as I live, I will prepare you for blood, and blood will pursue you. Because you don’t hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you. ⁷I will turn Mount Seir into a desolate wasteland, when I cut off from it both passerby and homecomer. ⁸I will fill its highlands—your hills and your valleys, and all your ravines—with its slain. Those who are slain by the sword will fall on them. ⁹I will turn you into an eternal desolation. Your cities won’t be inhabited, and you will know that I am the Lord.

¹⁰You said, “These two nations and these two territories are mine. We will take possession of them even if the Lord is there.” ¹¹Therefore, the Lord God proclaims: As surely as I live, I will act according to the anger and zeal you displayed when you dealt with them so hatefully. When I judge you, I will make myself known to them, ¹²and you will know that I am the Lord. I’ve heard the lies and libels that you uttered against Israel’s highlands when you said, “They are laid waste. They’ve been given to us to consume.” ¹³With your mouths you exalted yourselves against me and spoke your words against me. I myself heard it!

¹⁴The Lord God proclaims: As the whole world rejoices, I will turn you into a desolation. ¹⁵Just as you rejoiced over the house of Israel’s inheritance because it became desolate, so I will deal with you. Mount Seir, you will become a desolation, with all of Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

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Obadiah 10-16

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Edom’s misdeeds

¹⁰Because of the slaughter and violence done to your brother Jacob,
        shame will cover you,
        and you will be destroyed forever.
¹¹You stood nearby,
        strangers carried off his wealth,
    and foreigners entered his gates
        and cast lots for Jerusalem;
    you too were like one of them.
¹²But you should have taken no pleasure over your brother
        on the day of his misery;
    you shouldn’t have rejoiced over the people of Judah
        on the day of their devastation;
    you shouldn’t have bragged
        on their day of hardship.
¹³You shouldn’t have entered the gate of my people
        on the day of their defeat;
    you shouldn’t have even looked on his suffering
        on the day of his disaster;
    you shouldn’t have stolen his possessions
        on the day of his distress.
¹⁴You shouldn’t have waited on the roads
        to destroy his escapees;
    you shouldn’t have handed over his survivors
        on the day of defeat.
¹⁵The day of the Lord is near
        against all the nations.
    As you have done, so it will be done to you;
        your actions will make you suffer!
¹⁶Just as you have drunk on my holy mountain,
        so will all the nations around you drink;
    they will drink and swallow quickly,
        and they will be like they’ve never been before.

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Psalm 137:7-9

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⁷Lord, remember what the Edomites did
        on Jerusalem’s dark day:
    “Rip it down, rip it down!
    All the way to its foundations!” they yelled.
⁸Daughter Babylon, you destroyer,^[a]
    a blessing on the one who pays you back
    the very deed you did to us!
⁹    A blessing on the one who seizes your children
    and smashes them against the rock!