^16 (A)Then you shall gather all its booty into the middle of its open square and burn the city and all its booty with fire as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God; and it shall be a ^[a](B)ruin forever. It shall never be rebuilt.

⁴ Though Edom says, “We have been ^(A)beaten down, but we will ^[a](B)return and build up the ruins”; thus says the Lord of hosts, “They may ^(C)build, but I will tear down; and men will call them the ^[b]wicked territory, and the people ^[c]toward whom the Lord is indignant ^(D)forever.”