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Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

"Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it

Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

and say to it, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: "Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, And I will reach out with My hand against you And make you a desolation and a waste.

And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.

"I will turn your cities to ruins, And you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord .

"Since you have had everlasting hostility and have turned over the sons of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their disaster, at the time of the punishment of the end,

Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:

therefore as I live," declares the Lord GOD, "I will certainly doom you to bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you; since you have not hated bloodshed, therefore bloodshed will pursue you.

Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord God , I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.

"I will make Mount Seir a waste and a desolation and I will eliminate from it one who passes through and returns.

Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.

"I will fill its mountains with its slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines.

And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.

"I will make you a permanent desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the Lord .

"Since you have said, 'These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we will possess them,' although the LORD was there,

Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the Lord was there:

therefore as I live," declares the Lord GOD, "I will deal with you according to your anger and according to your envy which you displayed because of your hatred for them; so I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.

Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord God , I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.

"Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel saying, 'They are desolate; they have been given to us as food.'

And thou shalt know that I am the Lord , and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.

"And you have spoken arrogantly against Me and have multiplied your words against Me; I Myself have heard it."

Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.

'This is what the Lord GOD says: "As all the earth rejoices, I will make you a desolation.

Thus saith the Lord God ; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.

"As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be a desolation, Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the LORD."'

As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it: and they shall know that I am the Lord .