Ezekiel 35

1The word of the LORD came to me: 2Son of man, turn to face Mount Seir and prophesy against it. 3Say to it, The Lord GOD says this: I am against you, Mount Seir. I will raise my hand against you and turn you into a desolate waste. 4I will lay your towns in ruins, and you will be laid waste. Then you will know that I am the LORD. 5Because you kept up an age-old hostility and handed the Israelites over to the sword at the time of their disaster, the time when their punishment reached its end, 6therefore, as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will hand you over to bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you. 7I will make Mount Seir a desolate ruin and cut off from it everyone who comes and goes. 8I will fill its mountains with the dead. Those killed by the sword will fall on your hills and in your valleys and all your ravines. 9I will make you desolate forever, and your towns will not be lived in again. Then you will know that I am the LORD. 10Because you said, “Both nations and both countries will be mine; we will take them over,” even though the LORD was there, 11therefore, as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will treat you with the same anger and envy that you showed in your hatred of them, and when I judge you, I will make myself known among them. 12Then you will know that I am the LORD. I have heard all the insults you spoke against the mountains of Israel when you said, “They lie desolate; they have been handed to us to devour.” 13You boasted against me with your mouths and piled up words against me. I heard it all.

14The Lord GOD says this: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate. 15Just as you rejoiced when the house of Israel’s inheritance became desolate, I will do the same to you. You will be desolate, Mount Seir, you and all Edom, every part of it. Then they will know that I am the LORD.