⁶ In all your places of habitation, ^(A)cities will become waste, and the high places will be desolate, that your altars may become waste and ^[a]desolate, your ^(B)idols may be broken and cease, your incense altars may be cut in pieces, and your works may be blotted out.

⁹ I will make you an everlasting ^(A)desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

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.”