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| 1A message came to me from the LORD and it went like this: | 1The word of the LORD came to me: |
| 2"Son of Man, turn your attention toward Mount Seir and begin to prophesy against it. | 2"Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir; prophesy against it |
| 3Tell them, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: "Watch out! I'm coming to get you, Mount Seir! I'm stretching out my hand to strike you, and I'm going to turn you into a desolate wasteland. | 3and say: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you and make you a desolate waste. |
| 4I'm going to turn your cities into ghost towns, and you will become a ruin. Then you will learn that I am the LORD. | 4I will turn your towns into ruins and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD. |
| 5"Because of your undying hatred, you kept on making the Israelis experience abuse during the time of their calamity, even when they were in their final stages of punishment, | 5"'Because you harbored an ancient hostility and delivered the Israelites over to the sword at the time of their calamity, the time their punishment reached its climax, |
| 6therefore as I'm alive and living," declares the Lord GOD, "I'm turning you over to bloodshed, and bloodshed will certainly overtake you, since you never have hated shedding blood. That's why bloodshed will certainly pursue you. | 6therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you. |
| 7I'm turning Mount Seir over to ruin and desolation. I'm going to eliminate everyone who comes and goes, | 7I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and cut off from it all who come and go. |
| 8and I'll fill that mountain with the dead. Those who die by violence will cover your hills, and fill your valleys and all your ravines! | 8I will fill your mountains with the slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines. |
| 9I will turn you into an everlasting wasteland, and your cities will never be inhabited. Then you'll learn that I am the LORD! | 9I will make you desolate forever; your towns will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD. |
| 10"Because you have claimed, 'These two nations and these two lands are going to belong to me, and we will take possession of them, even though the LORD is there,' | 10"'Because you have said, "These two nations and countries will be ours and we will take possession of them," even though I the LORD was there, |
| 11therefore as I'm alive and living" declares the Lord GOD, "I'm going to deal with you as your anger deserves. When I judge you, I'll treat you like you did the Israelis —that is, with the same kind of envy that motivated your constant hatred of them. | 11therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will treat you in accordance with the anger and jealousy you showed in your hatred of them and I will make myself known among them when I judge you. |
| 12That's how you'll know that I, the LORD, have heard every loathsome, reviling thing that you've had to say against the mountains of Israel, such as, 'They're desolate, and we'll eat them for dinner!' | 12Then you will know that I the LORD have heard all the contemptible things you have said against the mountains of Israel. You said, "They have been laid waste and have been given over to us to devour." |
| 13Not only that, you've arrogantly reviled me many times over, and I've heard every word! | 13You boasted against me and spoke against me without restraint, and I heard it. |
| 14"So this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Just as the earth rejoices, I'm going to turn you into a desolate wasteland. | 14This is what the Sovereign LORD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate. |
| 15Just as you rejoiced when Israel's inheritance became desolate, I'm going to do the same thing to you. Mount Seir, you and Edom—all of you—will become a desolate wasteland.' Then they will learn that I am the LORD." | 15Because you rejoiced when the inheritance of Israel became desolate, that is how I will treat you. You will be desolate, Mount Seir, you and all of Edom. Then they will know that I am the LORD.'" |
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