1. Moreover the Lord’s word came to me, saying,
2. “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
3. and tell it, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you. I will make you a desolation and an astonishment.
4. I will lay your cities waste, and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
5. “‘“Because you have had a perpetual hostility, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;
6. therefore, as I live,” says the Lord GOD, “I will prepare you for blood, and blood will pursue you. Since you have not hated blood, therefore blood will pursue you.
7. Thus I will make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation. I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns.
8. I will fill its mountains with its slain. The slain with the sword will fall in your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses.
9. I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
10. “‘“Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two countries will be mine, and we will possess it;’ whereas the Lord was there: