¹³ For I have ^(A)sworn by Myself,” declares the Lord, “that ^(B)Bozrah will become an ^(C)object of horror, a disgrace, a wasteland, and a curse; and all its cities will become permanent ruins.”

¹⁷ “Edom will become an ^(A)object of horror; everyone who passes by it will be appalled and will ^[a](B)hiss at all its wounds. ¹⁸ Like the ^(C)overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah with its neighbors,” says the Lord, “^(D)no one will live there, nor will ^[b]anyone of mankind reside in it.

⁷ I will make Mount Seir a waste and a desolation and I will eliminate from it one who passes through and returns.