⁵ because there has been to you an ancient hostility,^[a] and you handed over the Israelites^[b] to the power of the sword at the time of their disaster, at the time of their final punishment.^{[c] 6} Therefore as I live,”^[d] declares^[e] the Lord Yahweh, “Certainly to blood guilt I will prepare you and blood^[f] will pursue; since^[g] you did not hate blood,^[h] it will pursue you. ⁷ And I will make the mountain of Seir into a desolation and ruin, and I will cut off from it both he who is crossing over and he who is returning.