²³ She said to them, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Tell the man who sent you to me, ²⁴ ‘This is what the Lord says: I am going to bring disaster^(A) on this place and its people^(B)—all the curses^(C) written in the book that has been read in the presence of the king of Judah. ²⁵ Because they have forsaken me^(D) and burned incense to other gods and aroused my anger by all that their hands have made,^[a] my anger will be poured out on this place and will not be quenched.’

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

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