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therefore, as I live," says the Lord God, "I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.
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Thus I will make Mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it the one who leaves and the one who returns.
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And I will fill its mountains with the slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those who are slain by the sword shall fall.
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I will make you perpetually desolate, and your cities shall be uninhabited; then you shall know that I am the Lord.
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"Because you have said, 'These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess them,' although the Lord was there,
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therefore, as I live," says the Lord God, "I will do according to your anger and according to the envy which you showed in your hatred against them; and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.
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Then you shall know that I am the Lord. I have heard all your blasphemies which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, 'They are desolate; they are given to us to consume.'
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Thus with your mouth you have boasted against Me and multiplied your words against Me; I have heard them."
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Thus says the Lord God: "The whole earth will rejoice when I make you desolate.
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As you rejoiced because the inheritance of the house of Israel was desolate, so I will do to you; you shall be desolate, O Mount Seir, as well as all of Edom--all of it! Then they shall know that I am the Lord." '