4 I will turn your cities into ruins,and you will become a desolation.Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
5 “Because you maintained an ancient hatred and handed over the Israelites to the power of the sword in the time of their disaster, the time of final punishment,
6 therefore, as I live” — this is the declaration of the Lord God — “I will destine you for bloodshed, and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, it will pursue you.
7 I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.
8 I will fill its mountains with the slain; those slain by the sword will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines.
9 I will make you a perpetual desolation; your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
10 “Because you said, ‘These two nations and two lands will be mine, and we will possess them’ — though the Lord was there —