1. The Lord spoke his word to me, saying:
2. “Human, look toward Edom and prophesy against it.
3. Say to it: ‘This is what the Lord God says: I am against you, Edom. I will stretch out my hand against you and make you an empty desert.
4. I will destroy your cities, and you will become empty. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
5. “ ‘You have always been an enemy of Israel. You let them be defeated in war when they were in trouble at the time of their final punishment.
6. So the Lord God says, as surely as I live, I will let you be murdered. Murder will chase you. Since you did not hate murdering people, murder will chase you.
7. I will make Edom an empty ruin and destroy everyone who goes in or comes out of it.
8. I will fill its mountains with those who are killed. Those killed in war will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines.
9. I will make you a ruin forever; no one will live in your cities. Then you will know that I am the Lord.