[1] The LORD’s word came to me: [2] Human one, face Mount Seir, and prophesy against it. [3] Say to it, The LORD God proclaims: I’m against you, Mount Seir! I will use my power against you. I will make you into a desolate wasteland, [4] I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD. [5] Because you nursed an ancient grudge, you handed the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their distress, during their final punishment. [6] So now the LORD God proclaims: As surely as I live, I will prepare you for blood, and blood will pursue you. Because you don’t hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you. [7] I will turn Mount Seir into a desolate wasteland, when I cut off from it both passerby and homecomer. [8] I will fill its highlands—your hills and your valleys, and all your ravines—with its slain. Those who are slain by the sword will fall on them. [9] I will turn you into an eternal desolation. Your cities won’t be inhabited, and you will know that I am the LORD. [10] You said, “These two nations and these two territories are mine. We will take possession of them even if the LORD is there.” [11] Therefore, the LORD God proclaims: As surely as I live, I will act according to the anger and zeal you displayed when you dealt with them so hatefully. When I judge you, I will make myself known to them, [12] and you will know that I am the LORD. I’ve heard the lies and libels that you uttered against Israel’s highlands when you said, “They are laid waste. They’ve been given to us to consume.” [13] With your mouths you exalted yourselves against me and spoke your words against me. I myself heard it! [14] The LORD God proclaims: As the whole world rejoices, I will turn you into a desolation. [15] Just as you rejoiced over the house of Israel’s inheritance because it became desolate, so I will deal with you. Mount Seir, you will become a desolation, with all of Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
