⁶ Wherever you live,^(A) the towns will be laid waste and the high places^(B) demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and devastated, your idols^(C) smashed and ruined, your incense altars^(D) broken down, and what you have made wiped out.^(E)

⁹ I will make you desolate forever;^(A) your towns will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.^(B)

³ but Esau I have hated,^(A) and I have turned his hill country into a wasteland^(B) and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.^(C)”

⁴ Edom^(D) may say, “Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild^(E) the ruins.”

But this is what the Lord Almighty says: “They may build, but I will demolish.^(F) They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath of the Lord.^(G)