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Prophecy Against Mount Seir

¹ The word of the Lord came to me: ^2 (a)"Son of man, ^(b)set your face ^(c)against ^(d)Mount Seir, and prophesy against it, ³ and say to it, Thus says the Lord God: ^(e)Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and ^(f)I will stretch out my hand against you, ^(g)and I will make you a desolation and a waste. ^4 (h)I will lay your cities waste, and you shall become a desolation, and you shall know that I am the Lord. ⁵ Because ⁽ⁱ⁾you cherished perpetual enmity and gave over the people of Israel to the power of the sword ^(j)at the time of their calamity, ^(k)at the time of their final punishment, ⁶ therefore, ^(l)as I live, declares the Lord God, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; ^(m)because you did not hate bloodshed, therefore blood shall pursue you. ^7 (n)I will make Mount Seir a waste ^(o)and a desolation, and I will cut off from it ^(p)all who come and go. ⁸ And I will fill ^(q)its mountains with the slain. On your hills and in your valleys and in all ^(r)your ravines ^(s)those slain with the sword shall fall. ^9 (t)I will make you a perpetual desolation, and ^(u)your cities shall not be inhabited. Then ^(v)you will know that I am the Lord.

¹⁰ "Because you said, ^(w)‘These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and ^(x)we will take possession of them'—although the ^(y)Lord was there— ¹¹ therefore, ^(z)as I live, declares the Lord God, I will deal with you ^(aa)according to the anger and ^(ab)envy that you showed because of your hatred against them. And ^(ac)I will make myself known among them, when I judge you. ¹² And you shall know that I am the Lord.

^(ad)"I have heard all the revilings that you uttered against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They are laid desolate; ^(ae)they are given us to devour.' ¹³ And ^(af)you magnified yourselves against me ^(ag)with your mouth, and multiplied your words against me; I heard it. ¹⁴ Thus says the Lord God: ^(ah)While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate. ¹⁵ As you ^(ai)rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will deal with you; you shall be desolate, ^(aj)Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then ^(ak)they will know that I am the Lord.