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The word of ADONAI came to me:
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"Human being, turn your face against Mount Se'ir; prophesy against it,
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and say that Adonai ELOHIM says, 'I am against you, Mount Se'ir. I will stretch out my hand against you and make you utterly desolate.
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I will make your cities ruins and make you an utter waste, and you will know that I am ADONAI.
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Because of your long-standing hatred, you put the people of Isra'el to the sword at their time of calamity, at the time of final iniquity.
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Therefore, as I live,' Adonai ELOHIM swears, 'I will prepare you for blood. Blood will pursue you. You intensely hate your own blood [relatives]; therefore blood will pursue you.
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Yes, I will make Mount Se'ir utterly desolate, cutting off from it anyone passing through or returning.
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I will fill his mountains with his slain; in your hills and valleys and in all your ravines will fall those slain by the sword.
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I will turn you into perpetual ruins; your cities will not return; and you will know that I am ADONAI.
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"'Because you say, "These two nations, these two countries, will be mine; we will take possession of them," even though ADONAI is there;