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I will make many peoples appalled at you; their kings shall shudder because of you. When I brandish my sword before them, they shall tremble every moment for their lives, each one of them, on the day of your downfall.

Now you, mortal, say to the house of Israel, Thus you have said: "Our transgressions and our sins weigh upon us, and we waste away because of them; how then can we live?"

Then they shall know that I am the Lord , when I have made the land a desolation and a waste because of all their abominations that they have committed.

So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and scattered, they became food for all the wild animals.

As I live, says the Lord God , because my sheep have become a prey, and my sheep have become food for all the wild animals, since there was no shepherd; and because my shepherds have not searched for my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and have not fed my sheep;

Because you pushed with flank and shoulder, and butted at all the weak animals with your horns until you scattered them far and wide,

Because you cherished an ancient enmity, and gave over the people of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment;

Because you said, "These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will take possession of them,"—although the Lord was there—

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.

As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will deal with you; you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they shall know that I am the Lord .

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 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;

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

And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt treacherously with me. So I hid my face from them and gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword.

Then they shall know that I am the Lord their God because I sent them into exile among the nations, and then gathered them into their own land. I will leave none of them behind;

Only the prince, because he is a prince, may sit in it to eat food before the Lord ; he shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gate, and shall go out by the same way.

Because they ministered to them before their idols and made the house of Israel stumble into iniquity, therefore I have sworn concerning them, says the Lord God , that they shall bear their punishment.

On the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing."