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The Prophecy
of Ezechiel 35
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy
concerning it, and say to it:
Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against thee,
mount Seir, and I will stretch forth my hand upon thee,
and I will make thee desolate and waste.
I will destroy thy cities, and thou shalt be desolate:
and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
Because thou hast been an everlasting enemy, and hast
shut up the children of Israel in the hands of the sword
in the time of their affliction, in the time of their
last iniquity.
Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will deliver
thee up to blood, and blood shall pursue thee: and whereas
thou hast hated blood, blood shall pursue thee.
And I will make mount Seir waste and desolate: and I
will take away from it him that goeth and him that returneth.
And I will fill his mountains with his men that are
slain: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in thy
torrents they shall fall that are slain with the sword.
I will make thee everlasting desolations, and thy cities
shall not be inhabited: and thou shalt know that I am
the Lord God.
Because thou hast said: The two nations, and the two
lands shall be mine, and I will possess them by inheritance:
whereas the Lord was there.
Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will do according
to thy wrath, and according to thy envy, which thou
hast exercised in hatred to them: and I will be made
known by them, when I shall have judged thee.
And thou shalt know that I the Lord have heard all thy
reproaches, that thou hast spoken against the mountains
of Israel, saying: They are desolate, they are given
to us to consume.
And you rose up against me with your mouth, and have
derogated from me by your words: I have heard them.
Thus saith the Lord God: When the whole earth shall
rejoice, I will make thee a wilderness.
As thou best rejoiced over the inheritance of the house
of Israel, because it was laid waste, so will I do to
thee: thou shalt be laid waste, O mount Seir, and all
Idumea: and they shall know that I am the Lord. |