A Prophecy against Mount Seir 1 UEB Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, BSB BSB: Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
2 UEB "Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it. BSB BSB: “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it,
3 UEB Say to it, 'The Lord Yahweh says this: Behold! I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will strike you with my hand and make you a desolation and a waste. 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 UEB I will make your cities ruins, and you yourself will become desolate; then you will know that I am Yahweh. 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 UEB Because you have always been hostile to the people of Israel, and because you poured them out into the hands of the sword at the time of their distress, at the time their punishment was at its greatest. 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 UEB Therefore, as I live—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration—I will prepare you for bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you! Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed 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 UEB I will make Mount Seir a complete desolation when I cut off from it anyone who passes through and returns again. BSB BSB: I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.
8 UEB I will fill its mountains with those who were killed; on your high hills and valleys and in all your streams those who were killed by the sword will fall. 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 UEB I will make you a perpetual desolation. Your cities will not be inhabited, but you will know that I am Yahweh. 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 UEB You have said, "These two nations and these two lands will become mine, and we will possess them," even when Yahweh was present with them. 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 UEB Therefore, as I live—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration—so I will do according to your anger and according to your jealousy that you had in your hatred of Israel, and I will show myself to them when I judge 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 UEB So you will know that I am Yahweh. I have heard all the insults you spoke against the mountains of Israel, when you said, "They have been destroyed; they have been given over 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 UEB You exalted yourselves against me with what you said, and you multiplied the words you said against me; and I heard it all. BSB BSB: You boasted against Me with your mouth and multiplied your words against Me. I heard it Myself!
14 UEB The Lord Yahweh says this: I will make you a desolation, while the entire earth rejoices. BSB BSB: This is what the Lord GOD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.
15 UEB As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the people of Israel because of its desolation, I will do the same to you. You will become a desolation, Mount Seir, and all of Edom—all of it! Then they will know that I am Yahweh.'" 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.
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