⁶ In all your dwellings, ^(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 brought to an end, your incense altars may be cut down, 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 the Lord.

³ but I have hated Esau, and I have ^(A)made his mountains a desolation and appointed his inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness.” ⁴ Though Edom says, “We have been ^(B)beaten down, but we will ^[a](C)return and build up the ruins”; thus says the Lord of hosts, “They may ^(D)build, but I will tear down; and men will call them the ^[b]wicked territory, and the people ^[c]toward whom the Lord is indignant ^(E)forever.”