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Therefore, thus says the Lord God to them: I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

And I, the Lord , will be their God, and my servant David shall be prince among them; I, the Lord , have spoken.

They shall know that I, the Lord their God, am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord God .

You are my sheep, the sheep of my pasture and I am your God, says the Lord God .

and say to it, Thus says the Lord God : I am against you, Mount Seir; I stretch out my hand against you to make you a desolation and a waste.

therefore, as I live, says the Lord God , I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed shall pursue you.

therefore, as I live, says the Lord God , I will deal with you according to the anger and envy that you showed because of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among you, when I judge you.

Thus says the Lord God : As the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

Thus says the Lord God : Because the enemy said of you, "Aha!" and, "The ancient heights have become our possession,"

therefore prophesy, and say: Thus says the Lord God : Because they made you desolate indeed, and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you became an object of gossip and slander among the people;

therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God : Thus says the Lord God to the mountains and the hills, the watercourses and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted towns, which have become a source of plunder and an object of derision to the rest of the nations all around;

therefore thus says the Lord God : I am speaking in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who, with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, took my land as their possession, because of its pasture, to plunder it.

Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, to the watercourses and valleys, Thus says the Lord God : I am speaking in my jealous wrath, because you have suffered the insults of the nations;

therefore thus says the Lord God : I swear that the nations that are all around you shall themselves suffer insults.

Thus says the Lord God : Because they say to you, "You devour people, and you bereave your nation of children,"

therefore you shall no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, says the Lord God ;

and no longer will I let you hear the insults of the nations, no longer shall you bear the disgrace of the peoples; and no longer shall you cause your nation to stumble, says the Lord God .

Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God : It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came.

I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them; and the nations shall know that I am the Lord , says the Lord God , when through you I display my holiness before their eyes.

Then you shall live in the land that I gave to your ancestors; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.