35 Then Yahweh gave me another message:[ref] 2 “Humanity’s child, look out towards Mt. Seir and prophesy against it. 3 Tell it that the master Yahweh says this: Listen, I’m against you Edom, represented by Mt. Seir, and I’ll work against you to make you a desolation and a waste. 4 I’ll turn your cities into ruins, and you yourself will become desolate. Then you’ll know that I am Yahweh.

5 You’ve always been hostile to the Israeli people, and in their time of distress you decided to attack them with swords—at the time their punishment was coming to an end. 6 Therefore, this is the master Yahweh’s declaration: As I live, I will prepare you for bloodshed, and bloodshed will chase after you. Since you didn’t hate bloodshed, then bloodshed will come to you you. 7 I’ll make Edom completely desolate when I cut it off so that no one will want to pass through it. 8 I’ll fill its mountain ranges with those who were killed—those killed by the sword will fall on your high hills and valleys and in all your streams. 9 I’ll make your land perpetually desolate. Your cities won’t be inhabited, and then you’ll know that I am Yahweh.

10 You’ve said, “These two nations and these two lands will become mine, and we will possess them,” even when Yahweh was there with them. 11 Therefore, this is the master Yahweh’s declaration: As I live, so I will do according to your anger and according to your jealousy that you had in your hatred of Yisrael, and I will show myself to them when I judge you 12 then you will know that I am Yahweh. I’ve heard all the insults you spoke against Yisrael’s hill country, when you said, “They’ve been destroyed—they’ve been given over to us to devour.” 13 You raised yourselves up against me with what you said, and you multiplied the words you said against me, and I heard all of them.

14 The master Yahweh says this: I’ll make you into a desolate place while the rest of the world cheers. 15 Just like you rejoiced over the inheritance of Israeli people when it was made desolate, I’ll do the same to you. You’ll become a desolation, Mt. Seir and all of Edom—all of it. Then they’ll know that I am Yahweh.”