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How Esau will be ransacked, his hidden treasures looted

This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "Ah, enemies will ransack Esau; they will loot his hidden treasures" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive)

Esau

The people of Edom were the descendants of Esau. Therefore, in this book "Edom" and "Esau" refer to the same group of people.

will be ransacked

This means the enemies will search through Esau's things, take everything valuable, and leave everything else in a mess or damaged.