⁹ I will make you desolate forever;^(A) your towns will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.^(B)

⁴ Edom^(A) may say, “Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild^(B) the ruins.”

But this is what the Lord Almighty says: “They may build, but I will demolish.^(C) They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath of the Lord.^(D)