And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
Most desolate - literally, desolation and desolateness, (Jeremiah 49:17, etc.) It is only in their national character of foes to God's people that the Edomites are to be utterly destroyed. A remnant of Edom, as of the other pagan, is to be "called by the name of God" (Amos 9:12, "That they (the Israelites) may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the pagan which are called by my name, saith the Lord that doeth this").