1. And the word of יהוה came to me, saying,
2. “Son of man, set your face against Mount Sĕ‛ir and prophesy against it,
3. and you shall say to it, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “See, O Mount Sĕ‛ir, I am against you, and shall stretch out My hand against you, and shall make you a ruin and a waste.
4. “Your cities I destroy, and let you be a ruin. And you shall know that I am יהוה.
5. “Because you have had a continuous enmity, and handed the children of Yisra’ĕl over to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of the crookedness of the end.
6. “Therefore, as I live,” declares the Master יהוה, “I shall appoint you for blood, and let blood pursue you. Since you did not hate blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.
7. “And I shall make Mount Sĕ‛ir a ruin and a waste, and cut off from it the one who leaves and the one who returns,
8. and shall fill its mountains with the slain, those slain by the sword falling on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines.
9. “I shall make you an everlasting ruin, and your cities uninhabited. And you shall know that I am יהוה.
10. “Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two lands are mine, and we shall possess them,’ although יהוה was there,