1. The word of the Lord came to me:
2. “Son of man, turn toward Mount Seir, and prophesy against it.
3. Say to it, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: “‘Look, I am against you, Mount Seir;I will stretch out my hand against youand turn you into a desolate ruin.
4. I will lay waste your cities;and you will become desolate.Then you will know that I am the Lord!
5. “‘You have shown unrelenting hostility and poured the people of Israel onto the blades of a sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment.
6. Therefore, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I will subject you to bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.
7. I will turn Mount Seir into a desolate ruin; I will cut off from it the one who passes through or returns.
8. I will fill its mountains with its dead; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines, those killed by the sword will fall.
9. I will turn you into a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.