⁷ And I will make Mount Seir a cause for wonder and a waste, cutting off from it all comings and goings.

¹¹ No foot of man will go through it and no foot of beast, and it will be unpeopled for forty years.

³ And say to it, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am against you, O Mount Seir, and my hand will be stretched out against you, and I will make you a waste and a cause for wonder.

⁶ In the days of Shamgar, the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were not used, and travellers went by side roads.

⁷ Country towns were no more in Israel, *** were no more, till you, Deborah, came up, till you came up as a mother in Israel.

⁵ In those times there was no peace for him who went out or for him who came in, but great trouble was on all the people of the lands.

⁶ And they were broken by divisions, nation against nation and town against town, because God sent all sorts of trouble on them.

²⁸ And I will make the land a waste and a cause of wonder, and the pride of her strength will come to an end; and the mountains of Israel will be made waste so that no one will go through.

⁹ I will make you waste for ever, and your towns will be unpeopled: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.