3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
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but Esau I have hated, and I have turned his hill country into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
4 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.
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Edom may say, “Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild the ruins.” But this is what the LORD Almighty says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath of the LORD.