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.