Tell the people what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying: "I am your enemy, mountains of Edom! I will make you a desolate wasteland.

I will make you desolate forever, and no one will live in your cities again. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

I will make the country a desolate wasteland, and the power they were so proud of will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will be so wild that no one will be able to travel through them.

No human being or animal will walk through it. For forty years nothing will live there.

In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, caravans no longer went through the land, and travelers used the back roads.

The towns of Israel stood abandoned, Deborah; they stood empty until you came, came like a mother for Israel.

In those days no one could come and go in safety, because there was trouble and disorder in every land.

One nation oppressed another nation, and one city oppressed another city, because God was bringing trouble and distress on them.