1. The word of the Lord came to me:
2. “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
3. and say to it, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and a waste.
4. I will lay your cities waste, and you shall become a desolation, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
5. Because you cherished perpetual enmity and gave over the people of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment,
6. therefore, as I live, declares the Lord God, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; because you did not hate bloodshed, therefore blood shall pursue you.
7. I will make Mount Seir a waste and a desolation, and I will cut off from it all who come and go.
8. And I will fill its mountains with the slain. On your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those slain with the sword shall fall.