⁷ I will make Mount Seir utterly desolate, killing off all who try to escape and any who return.

³ Give them this message from the Sovereign Lord:

¹¹ For forty years not a soul will pass that way, neither people nor animals. It will be completely uninhabited.

⁹ I will make you desolate forever. Your cities will never be rebuilt. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

²⁸ I will completely destroy the land and demolish her pride. Her arrogant power will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will be so desolate that no one will even travel through them.

⁵ “During those dark times, it was not safe to travel. Problems troubled the people of every land. ⁶ Nation fought against nation, and city against city, for God was troubling them with every kind of problem.