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[1] Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
[2] Son of man, Set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
[3] And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, O mount Seir, I come against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee desolate and waste.
[4] I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
[5] Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred and hast put the children of Israel to flight by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, when their iniquity had an end,
[6] Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: except thou hate blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
[7] Thus will I make mount Seir desolate and waste, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.
[8] And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thine hills, and in thy valleys and in all thy rivers shall they fall, that are slain with the sword.
[9] I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return, and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
[10] Because thou hast said, These two nations, and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess them (seeing the Lord was there)
[11] Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will even do according to thy wrath, and according to thine indignation which thou hast used in thine hatred against them: and I will make myself known among them when I have judged thee.
[12] And thou shalt know, that I the Lord have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They lie waste, they are given us to be devoured.
[13] Thus with your mouths ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
[14] Thus saith the Lord God, So shall all the world rejoice when I shall make thee desolate.
[15] As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Edom wholly, and they shall know, that I am the Lord.
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