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''Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth. And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword. I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the Lord. Because thou hast said (what is meant by 'thou' here is those of 'mount seir' which was a mountain in ancient Idumea, the place where Esau, the progenitor of the Edomites, had first dwelt, the term mount sier was later used prophetically of the Edomites/Idumeans) , These two nations and these two countries ( Israel & Judah ) shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the Lord was there: Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord God, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; (them being the Israelites) and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee. And thou shalt know that I am the Lord, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.''
This is prophetic language exhibiting the attitude and the intentions of the Edomites that they wished to take over the lands formerly belonging to Israel/Judah after the Assyrian/Babylonian captivities/deportation to mesopotamia. God is stating here that he will punish Edom for doing this. historically it can be demonstrated that they did indeed posess Israel/Judah, especially cities baring Jerusalem as it was in ruins/rubble.
