¹ Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

² Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

³ 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.

⁴ I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

⁵ Because you have had a perpetual enmity, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;

⁶ therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.

⁷ Thus will I make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation; and I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns.

⁸ I will fill its mountains with its slain: in your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses shall they fall who are slain with the sword.

⁹ I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

¹⁰ Because you have said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas Yahweh was there:

¹¹ therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I shall judge you.

¹² You shall know that I, Yahweh, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they have been given us to devour.

¹³ You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard it.

¹⁴ Thus says the Lord Yahweh: When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

¹⁵ As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you: you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

¹ How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies!

² My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

³ Yes, the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young, near your altars, Yahweh of Armies, my King, and my God.

⁴ Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are always praising you. Selah.

⁵ Blessed are those whose strength is in you; who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.

⁶ Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.

⁷ They go from strength to strength. Everyone of them appears before God in Zion.

⁸ Yahweh, God of Armies, hear my prayer. Listen, God of Jacob. Selah.

⁹ Behold, God our shield, look at the face of your anointed.

¹⁰ For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

¹¹ For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

¹² Yahweh of Armies, blessed is the man who trusts in you. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.