1. The word of the Lord came to me:
2. ‘Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir; prophesy against it
3. and say: “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you and make you a desolate waste.
4. I will turn your towns into ruins and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
5. ‘ “Because you harboured an ancient hostility and delivered the Israelites over to the sword at the time of their calamity, the time their punishment reached its climax,