1. The Lord spoke to me.
2. “Mortal man,” he said, “denounce the country of Edom.
3. Tell the people what I, the Sovereign Lord, am saying:“I am your enemy, mountains of Edom!I will make you a desolate waste.
4. I will leave your cities in ruinsAnd your land desolate;Then you will know that I am the Lord.
5. “You were Israel's constant enemy and let her people be slaughtered in the time of her disaster, the time of final punishment for her sins.
6. So then — as surely as I, the Sovereign Lord, am the living God — death is your fate, and you cannot escape it. You are guilty of murder, and murder will follow you.
7. I will make the hill country of Edom a waste and kill everyone who travels through it.
8. I will cover the mountains with corpses, and the bodies of those who are killed in battle will cover the hills and valleys.
9. I will make you desolate for ever, and no one will live in your cities again. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
10. “You said that the two nations, Judah and Israel, together with their lands, belonged to you and that you would possess them, even though I, the Lord, was their God.