 1 The Word of the Lord came to me saying, 2 Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it. 3 Say to it, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, O Mount Seir, I am against you, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a ruin and a waste. 4 I will raze your cities and you will be ruined, and then you will know that I am the Lord. 5 Because you have had a never ending hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that iniquity had an end, 6 therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, I will yield you up to blood, and blood shall pursue you. Since you have not hated blood, even blood shall pursue you. 7 So I will make Mount Seir a ruin, and cut off from it the one passing through, and the one returning. 8 I will fill his mountains with his dead. In your hills, and your valleys, and all your rivers, those slain with the sword shall fall in them. 9 I will make you ruins forever and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord. 10 Because you have said, These two nations and these two lands shall be mine, and we shall possess it. Yet the Lord was there; 11 therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, I will act by your anger and by your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them. And I will make myself known among them when I have judged you. 12 Then you will know that I am the Lord. I have heard all your blasphemies which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel saying, Desolation. They are given to us for food. 13 So with your mouth you have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me. I have heard them. 14 Thus says the Lord God: When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you a ruin. 15 As you rejoiced at the inheritance of the house of Israel because of desolation, so I will do to you. You shall be a desolation, O Mount Seir and all Idumea, even all of it. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
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