¹Then the word of the Lord came to me and said, ²“Son of Adam, direct your attention to Mount Seir, and prophesy against it, ³and say to it, ‘This is what my Lord the Lord says:

«Here I am against you, O Mount Seir,

And I have stretched out my hand against you,

And I have appointed you to desolation and devastation.

⁴I will make your cities a ruin,

And you will be a desolation.

And you will know that I am the Lord,

⁵Because you have had an age-old hostility,

And you delivered the sons of Israel to the edges of the sword

At the time of their calamity,

At the time of the final iniquity.

⁶Therefore, as I live, says the Lord, the Lord, I will destine you for blood, and blood will pursue you. You have certainly hated in a bloody way, and blood will pursue you. ⁷And I will make Mount Seir a desolation and a devastation, and I will cut it off for anyone passing by or coming back. ⁸And I will fill its mountains with its men struck through. On your hills and in your valleys and all your watercourses, victims of the sword will fall. ⁹I will make you into age-abiding desolations, and your cities will not be inhabited, and you will know that I am the Lord. ¹⁰Because you said, ‹The two nations and the two countries will be mine, and we will inherit it›, when the Lord was present there, ¹¹as I live, says the Lord, the Lord, I will act according to your anger and your envy which you have shown, because of your hatred of them. And I will have become known among them when I judge you. ¹²And you will know that I am the Lord. I have heard all your insults which you have uttered against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‹It has become desolate; they have been delivered to us as prey.› ¹³And you have acted presumptuously against me with your mouth, and you have been profuse with your words against me. I have heard them.» ¹⁴This is what my Lord the Lord says: «When the whole of the land is joyful, I will make you a desolation. ¹⁵As was your rejoicing at the fate of the house of Israel, because it had become desolate, so I will do to you. Mount Seir, you will become a desolation, as will all of Edom in its entirety, and they will know that I am the Lord.» ’ ”