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The Book of Ezekiel, Chapter 35, Verse 3

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Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
King James Version
And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I [am] against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
American Standard Version
and say unto it, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, O mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against thee, and I will make thee a desolation and an astonishment.
New English Translation
Say to it,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘Look, I am against you, Mount Seir; I will stretch out my hand against you and turn you into a desolate ruin.
World English Bible
and tell it, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and an astonishment.
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I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD.
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Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed [the blood of] the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time [that their] iniquity [had] an end:
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Therefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
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Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.
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And I will fill his mountains with his slain [men]: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
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I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.
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Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there:
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Therefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
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And thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD, [and that] I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
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Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard [them].