This chapter is a prophecy against Mount Seir representing Edom. “I will stretch out my hand against you and make you a desolate waste… because you harboured an ancient hostility against Israel… since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you… I will fill the mountains with the slain… I will treat you in accordance with the anger and jealousy of them… for you boasted against me and spoke against me without restraint… so I will make you desolate'”.
