Whereas Edom says, "We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;" thus says Yahweh of Armies, "They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them 'The Wicked Land,' even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever."

"For I, Yahweh, don't change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.'