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Prophecy Directed at Edom

¹ And the word of Yahweh came^[a] to me, saying,^{[b] 2} "Son of man,^[c] 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,^[d] and you handed over the Israelites^[e] to the power of the sword at the time of their disaster, at the time of their final punishment.^{[f] 6} Therefore as I live,"^[g] declares^[h] the Lord Yahweh, "Certainly to blood guilt I will prepare you and blood^[i] will pursue; since^[j] you did not hate blood,^[k] 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^[l] 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,^[m] ‘The two nations and the two lands, they will be mine,^[n] and we will take possession of it,' and yet Yahweh was there. ¹¹ Therefore, as I live,"^[o] declares^[p] the Lord Yahweh, "so I will deal with you according to your anger and according to your jealousy that you did,^[q] 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^[r] against the mountains of Israel, saying,^[s] ‘They will be desolate; they are given to us as food.' ¹³ And you magnified yourself against me with your insolent speech,^[t] and you spoke voluminously against me with your words—I heard! ¹⁴ Thus the Lord Yahweh says, ‘As the whole world rejoices,^[u] I will make you a desolation. ¹⁵ Like your rejoicing over the inheritance of the house of Israel^[v] because^[w] 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.'"'