4I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
5Because 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;
6therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will prepare you to blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.
7Thus 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.
8I 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.
9I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
10Because you have said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas Yahweh was there:
