4. I will turn your towns into ruins and you will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
5. “ ‘Because you harbored an ancient hostility and delivered the Israelites over to the sword at the time of their calamity, the time their punishment reached its climax,
6. therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.
7. I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and cut off from it all who come and go.
8. I will fill your mountains with the slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines.
9. I will make you desolate forever; your towns will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
10. “ ‘Because you have said, “These two nations and countries will be ours and we will take possession of them,” even though I the Lord was there,
11. therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I will treat you in accordance with the anger and jealousy you showed in your hatred of them and I will make myself known among them when I judge you.