A Prophecy against Mount Seir 1 CPDV And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: BSB BSB: Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
2 CPDV “Son of man, set your face against mount Seir, and you shall prophesy about it, and you shall say to it: BSB BSB: “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it,
3 CPDV Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, mount Seir, and I will extend my hand over you, and I will make you desolate and deserted. BSB BSB: and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir. I will stretch out My hand against you and make you a desolate waste.
4 CPDV I will tear down your cities, and you will be deserted. And you shall know that I am the Lord. BSB BSB: I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
5 CPDV For you have been a continual adversary, and you have enclosed the sons of Israel, by the hands of the sword, in the time of their affliction, in the time of extreme iniquity. BSB BSB: Because you harbored an ancient hatred and delivered the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their disaster at the final stage of their punishment,
6 CPDV Because of this, as I live, says the Lord God, I will hand you over to blood, and blood will pursue you. Even though you have hated blood, blood will pursue you. BSB BSB: therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, it will pursue you.
7 CPDV And I will make mount Seir desolate and deserted. And I will take away from it the one who departs and the one who returns. BSB BSB: I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.
8 CPDV And I will fill up its mountains with its slain. In your hills, and in your valleys, as well as in your torrents, the slain will fall by the sword. BSB BSB: I will fill its mountains with the slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines.
9 CPDV I will hand you over to everlasting desolations, and your cities will not be inhabited. And you shall know that I am the Lord God. BSB BSB: I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
10 CPDV For you have said, ‘Two nations and two lands will be mine, and I will possess them as an inheritance,’ though the Lord was in that place. BSB BSB: Because you have said, ‘These two nations and countries will be ours, and we will possess them,’ even though the LORD was there,
11 CPDV Because of this, as I live, says the Lord God, I will act in accord with your own wrath, and in accord with your own zeal, by which you have acted with hatred toward them. And I will be made known by them, when I will have judged you. BSB BSB: therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will treat you according to the anger and jealousy you showed in your hatred against them, and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.
12 CPDV And you shall know that I, the Lord, have heard all your disgraces, which you have spoken about the mountains of Israel, saying: ‘They are deserted. They have been given to us to devour.’ BSB BSB: Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard every contemptuous word you uttered against the mountains of Israel when you said, ‘They are desolate; they are given to us to devour!’
13 CPDV And you rose up against me with your mouth, and you disparaged against me with your words. I have heard. BSB BSB: You boasted against Me with your mouth and multiplied your words against Me. I heard it Myself!
14 CPDV Thus says the Lord God: When the whole earth will rejoice, I will reduce you to solitude. BSB BSB: This is what the Lord GOD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.
15 CPDV Just as you have rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, when it was laid waste, so will I act toward you. You will be laid waste, O mount Seir, with all of Idumea. And they shall know that I am the Lord.” BSB BSB: As you rejoiced when the inheritance of the house of Israel became desolate, so will I do to you. You will become a desolation, O Mount Seir, and so will all of Edom. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
Select verses for actions: Enter goes to them and Escape comes back.