Ezekiel 35:12
Good News Translation
Then you will know that I, the LORD, heard you say with contempt that the mountains of Israel were desolate and that they were yours to devour.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall know that I, the LORD, have heard all the abusive speech that you uttered against the mountains of Israel, saying, “They are laid desolate, they are given us to devour.”

Contemporary English Version
And you will finally realize that I heard you laugh at their destruction and say their land was yours to take.

New American Bible
then you shall know that I am the LORD. I have heard all the insults you spoke against the mountains of Israel, saying: They are desolate; they have been given to us to devour.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt know that I the Lord have heard all thy reproaches, that thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying. They are desolate, they are given to us to consume.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And thou shalt know that I the Lord have heard all thy reproaches, that thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying. They are desolate, they are given to us to consume.

And thou

Ezekiel 35:9 I will make thee everlasting desolations, and thy cities shall not be inhabited: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord God.

Ezekiel 6:7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you: and you shall know that I am the Lord.

I have heard

Psalm 94:9,10 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? or he that formed the eye, doth he not consider? . . .

they are given

Ezekiel 36:2 Thus saith the Lord God: Because the enemy hath said to you: Aha, the everlasting heights are given to us for an inheritance.

Psalm 83:12 Who have said: Let us possess the sanctuary of God for an inheritance.

consume [heb] devour

Ezekiel 35:10 Because thou hast said: The two nations, and the two lands shall be mine, and I will possess them by inheritance: whereas the Lord was there.

Context
A Prophecy Against Mount Seir
11Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will do according to thy wrath, and according to thy envy, which thou hast exercised in hatred to them: and I will be made known by them, when I shall have judged thee. 12And thou shalt know that I the Lord have heard all thy reproaches, that thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying. They are desolate, they are given to us to consume.13And you rose up against me with your mouth, and have derogated from me by your words: I have heard them.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 50:7
All that found them, have devoured them: and their enemies said: We have not sinned in so doing: because they have sinned against the Lord the beauty of justice, and against the Lord the hope of their fathers.

Ezekiel 36:2
Thus saith the Lord God: Because the enemy hath said to you: Aha, the everlasting heights are given to us for an inheritance.

Obadiah 1:12
In the day when thou stoodest against him, when strangers carried away his army captive, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem: thou also wast as one of them.

Ezekiel 35:11
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