⁷ I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste^(A) and cut off from it all who come and go.^(B)

³ and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand^(A) against you and make you a desolate waste.^(B)

¹¹ The foot of neither man nor beast will pass through it; no one will live there for forty years.^(A)

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

²⁸ I will make the land a desolate waste, and her proud strength will come to an end, and the mountains^(A) of Israel will become desolate so that no one will cross them.^(B)

⁵ In those days it was not safe to travel about,^(A) for all the inhabitants of the lands were in great turmoil. ⁶ One nation was being crushed by another and one city by another,^(B) because God was troubling them with every kind of distress.