Prophecy Directed at Edom

35 And the word of Yahweh came[fn] to me, saying,[fn] 2 “Son of man,[fn] set your face against the mountain of Seir and prophesy against it, 3 and you must say to it, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Look! I am against you, mountain of Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and a wasteland. 4 Your cities I will make ruins, and you will be a desolation, and then you will know that I am Yahweh, 5 because there has been to you an ancient hostility,[fn] and you handed over the Israelites[fn] to the power of the sword at the time of their disaster, at the time of their final punishment.[fn] 6 Therefore as I live,”[fn] declares[fn] the Lord Yahweh, “Certainly to blood guilt I will prepare you and blood[fn] will pursue; since[fn] you did not hate blood,[fn] it will pursue you. 7 And I will make the mountain of Seir into a desolation and ruin, and I will cut off from it both he who is crossing over and he who is returning. 8 And I will fill its mountains with its slain; your hills and your valleys and all of your watercourses, the slain by the sword will fall in them. 9 An everlasting desolation[fn] I will make you, and your cities will not return, and you will know that I am Yahweh. 10 I do this because of your saying,[fn] ‘The two nations and the two lands, they will be mine,[fn] and we will take possession of it,’ and yet Yahweh was there. 11 Therefore, as I live,”[fn] declares[fn] the Lord Yahweh, “so I will deal with you according to your anger and according to your jealousy that you did,[fn] because of your hatred against them, and I will make myself known among them when I judge you. 12 And you will know that I, Yahweh, I have heard all of your contemptible words that you said[fn] against the mountains of Israel, saying,[fn] ‘They will be desolate; they are given to us as food.’ 13 And you magnified yourself against me with your insolent speech,[fn] and you spoke voluminously against me with your words—I heard! 14 Thus the Lord Yahweh says, ‘As the whole world rejoices,[fn] I will make you a desolation. 15 Like your rejoicing over the inheritance of the house of Israel[fn] because[fn] it was desolate, I will do to you; you will be a desolation, mountain of Seir and all of Edom, indeed all of it; and they will know that I am Yahweh.’ ” ’