Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.

Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?

Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

He will encourage fathers and their children to return to me, so that I will not come and strike the earth with judgment."