⁸ ‘Therefore thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I will ^(A)bring upon you a sword, and I will cut off from you man and beast.

³ but I have hated Esau, and I have ^(A)set his mountains to be a desolation and his inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness.” ⁴ Though Edom says, “We have been ^(B)demolished, but we will ^[a](C)return and build up the waste places”; thus says Yahweh of hosts, “They may ^(D)build, but I will pull down; and men will call them a ^[b]territory of wickedness, and the people ^[c]toward whom Yahweh is indignant ^(E)forever.”