¹³ I swear^(A) by myself,” declares the Lord, “that Bozrah^(B) will become a ruin and a curse,^[a] an object of horror^(C) and reproach;^(D) and all its towns will be in ruins forever.”^(E)

¹³ therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will stretch out my hand^(A) against Edom and kill both man and beast.^(B) I will lay it waste, and from Teman^(C) to Dedan^(D) they will fall by the sword.^(E)