This is what the Lord God says. I am against you, Mount Seir. I will stretch out my hand against you and make you a desolate wasteland. ⁴ I will make your cities ruins, and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

⁵ Because you cherished an ancient hatred and turned the Israelites over to the sword at the time of their disaster, at the time of their final punishment, ⁶ therefore, as I live, declares the Lord God, I will subject you to bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you. Because you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you. ⁷ I will make Mount Seir a desolate wasteland and cut off from it all those who flee from it and want to return. ^{[1] 8} I will fill its mountains with its slain. On your hills and in your valleys and in all your streambeds, those who have been run through by the sword will fall. ⁹ I will make you desolate forever, and your cities will not be re-inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

¹⁰ Because you said, “These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we will possess them, even though the Lord was there,” ¹¹ therefore, as I live, declares the Lord God, I will treat you as you deserve for your anger and for your jealousy which you held against these two nations in your hostility, and I will make myself known among them when I judge you. ¹² Then you will know that I, the Lord, have heard all the contemptuous statements that you uttered against the mountains of Israel: “They have been devastated and given to us for food.” ¹³ With your mouth you made proud boasts against me and heaped up arrogant words against me. I have heard it myself. ¹⁴ This is what the Lord God says. While the whole world celebrates, I will make you a desolation. ¹⁵ Because you celebrated when you took possession of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so will I deal with you. Mount Seir, you will be desolate, along with all of Edom. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord.

² This is what the Lord God says.

Because the enemy said about you, “Aha! At last! The ancient heights have become our possession,” ³ you are to prophesy and say, “This is what the Lord God says.”

Because they have devastated and crushed you from all sides, so that you would become the possession of the rest of the nations and a subject of people’s gossip and slander, ⁴ therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God. This is what the Lord God says to the mountains, hills, valleys, ravines, desolate ruins, and abandoned cities, which have become a source of plunder and are subjected to ridicule by the rest of the nations all around.

⁵ So, this is what the Lord God says. Without fail, in my fiery zeal I am speaking against the rest of the nations and against all of Edom, because they took my land as their own with whole-hearted glee and deep-seated contempt, and they occupied its pastureland. ⁶ Therefore, prophesy about the land of Israel and say to the mountains, hills, valleys, and ravines: This is what the Lord God says. In my zeal and wrath I am speaking because you have endured the taunts of the nations.

⁷ Therefore, this is what the Lord God says. I swear with an uplifted hand that the nations all around you will endure taunts against them. ⁸ But you, O mountains of Israel, will shoot forth your branches and bear your fruit for my people Israel, because they will soon come back. ⁹ Yes, I am on your side. I will look on you with favor, and your land will be cultivated and planted. ¹⁰ I will multiply people for you, for the whole house of Israel, all of it. The cities will be resettled and the ruins rebuilt. ¹¹ I will multiply both people and animals on you. They will multiply and be fruitful. I will resettle you as you were in earlier times and do more good for you than I did when you began. Then you will know that I am the Lord. ¹² I will cause people, my people Israel, to walk over you. They will take possession of you. You will become their inheritance, and never again will you deprive them of their children.

¹³ This is what the Lord God says. Because some people say to you, “You devour your people and keep on depriving your nations ^[2] of their children,” ¹⁴ therefore, you will no longer devour your people or deprive your nations of their children, declares the Lord God. ¹⁵ No longer will I let you hear the taunts of the nations or endure the scorn of the peoples. Never again will you deprive your nations of their children, declares the Lord God.