² This is what the Sovereign Lord says:^(A) The enemy said of you, “Aha!^(B) The ancient heights^(C) have become our possession.^(D)”’ ³ Therefore prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because they ravaged^(E) and crushed you from every side so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations and the object of people’s malicious talk and slander,^(F)

⁵ this is what the Sovereign Lord says: In my burning^(A) zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, for with glee and with malice in their hearts they made my land their own possession so that they might plunder its pastureland.’^(B)