Prophecy Against Mount Seir

35 The Lord’s message came to me: ² “Son of man, turn toward^[a] Mount Seir,^[b] and prophesy against it. ³ Say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

⁵ “‘You have shown unrelenting hostility and poured the people of Israel onto the blades of a sword^[c] at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment. ⁶ Therefore, as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I will subject you to bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you. ⁷ I will turn Mount Seir into a desolate ruin;^[d] I will cut off^[e] from it the one who passes through or returns. ⁸ I 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. ⁹ I will turn you into a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

¹⁰ “‘You said, “These two nations, these two lands^[f] will be mine, and we will possess them,”^[g] (although the Lord was there); ¹¹ therefore, as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I will deal with you according to your anger and your envy, by which you acted spitefully against them. I will reveal myself to them when I judge you. ¹² Then you will know that I, the Lord, have heard all the insults you spoke against the mountains of Israel, saying, “They are desolate; they have been given to us for food.” ¹³ You exalted yourselves against me with your speech^[h] and hurled many insults against me^[i]—I have heard them all! ¹⁴ This is what the Sovereign Lord says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will turn you into a desolation. ¹⁵ As 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 Edom—all of it! Then they will know that I am the Lord.’”