If Edom says, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places. So says Jehovah of Hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them the region of wickedness, and the people with whom Jehovah is indignant forever.

But you are profaning it when you say, The table of Jehovah, it is polluted; and its fruit, His food, is to be despised.

Therefore I have also made you despised and low before all the people, just as you have not kept My ways but are lifting up faces in the law.

For I am Jehovah, I change not. Because of this you sons of Jacob are not destroyed.

You are cursed with a curse; for you are robbing Me, the nation, all of it.

And now we are calling the arrogant blessed. Not only are the doers of wickedness built up, they also test God, and escape.