⁸ The highways are deserted,
    no travelers^(A) are on the roads.^(B)
The treaty is broken,^(C)
    its witnesses^[a] are despised,
    no one is respected.

⁶ “In the days of Shamgar son of Anath,^(A)
    in the days of Jael,^(B) the highways^(C) were abandoned;
    travelers took to winding paths.^(D)

⁸ Turn and flee, hide in deep caves,^(A)
    you who live in Dedan,^(B)
for I will bring disaster on Esau
    at the time when I punish him.