Ezekiel

The book of the prophet Ezekiel, chapter 35, New English Translation and King James Version

Chapter 35 New English Translation

Prophecy Against Mount Seir

   1 The word of the LORD came to me: 2 "Son of man, turn toward Mount Seir, and prophesy against it. 3 Say to it, 'This is what the sovereign LORD says: "'Look, I am against you, Mount Seir; I will stretch out my hand against you and turn you into a desolate ruin.
   4 I will lay waste your cities; and you will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD!
   5 "'You have shown unrelenting hostility and poured the people of Israel onto the blades of a sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment. 6 Therefore, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign LORD, I will subject you to bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you. 7 I will turn Mount Seir into a desolate ruin; I will cut off from it the one who passes through or returns. 8 I will fill its mountains with its dead; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines, those killed by the sword will fall. 9 I will turn you into a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
   10 "'You said, "These two nations, these two lands will be mine, and we will possess them, " - although the LORD was there - 11 therefore, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign LORD, I will deal with you according to your anger, and according to your envy, by which you acted spitefully against them. I will reveal myself to them when I judge you. 12 Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard all the insults you spoke against the mountains of Israel, saying, "They are desolate, they have been given to us for food." 13 You exalted yourselves against me with your speech and hurled many insults against me - I have heard them all! 14 This is what the sovereign LORD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will turn you into a desolation. 15 As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so will I deal with you - you will be desolate, Mount Seir, and all of Edom - all of it! Then they will know that I am the LORD.'"

King James Version

   1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
   2 Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
   3 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.
   4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
   5 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:
   6 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.
   7 Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.
   8 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.
   9 I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
   10 Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there:
   11 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.
   12 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.
   13 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
   14 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.
   15 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.