⁹ I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall never be inhabited. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.^(A)

¹³ therefore thus says the Lord God: I will stretch out my hand against Edom and cut off from it humans and animals, and I will make it desolate; from Teman even to Dedan they shall fall by the sword.^(A)

³ but I have hated Esau; I have made his hill country a desolation and his heritage a desert for jackals.^{(A) 4} If Edom says, ‘We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins,’ the Lord of hosts says: They may build, but I will tear down, until they are called the wicked country, the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.

⁷ The slain shall fall in your midst; then you shall know that I am the Lord.^(A)

¹¹ and I will multiply humans and animals upon you. They shall increase and be fruitful, and I will cause you to be inhabited as in your former times and will do more good to you than ever before. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.^(A)

Then you shall know that it is I the Lord who strike.

Then you shall know that I am the Lord.^(A)

¹⁷ Edom shall become an object of horror; everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters.^{(A) 18} As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors were overthrown, says the Lord, no one shall live there, nor shall anyone settle in it.^(B)