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Thus says the Lord God ^(a)concerning Edom:
^(b)We have heard a report from the Lord,
    and a messenger has been sent among the nations:
"Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!"
² Behold, I will make you small among the nations;
    you shall be utterly despised.^[a]
3 (c)The pride of your heart has deceived you,
    you who live in the clefts of the rock,^[b]
    in your lofty dwelling,
^(d)who say in your heart,
    "Who will bring me down to the ground?"
⁴ Though you soar aloft like the eagle,
    though your nest is set among the stars,
    from there I will bring you down,
declares the Lord.

⁵ If ^(e)thieves came to you,
    if plunderers came by night—
    how you have been destroyed!—
    would they not steal only enough for themselves?
If ^(f)grape gatherers came to you,
    would they not leave gleanings?
^6 (g)How Esau has been pillaged,
    his treasures sought out!
⁷ All your allies have driven you to your border;
    those at peace with you have deceived you;
they have prevailed against you;
    ^(h)those who eat your bread^[c] have set a trap beneath you—
    ⁽ⁱ⁾you have^[d] no understanding.

^8 (j)Will I not on that day, declares the Lord,
    destroy the wise men out of Edom,
    and understanding out of ^(k)Mount Esau?
⁹ And your mighty men shall be dismayed, ^(l)O Teman,
    so that every man from ^(m)Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.

^10 (n)Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob,
    shame shall cover you,
    ^(o)and you shall be cut off forever.
^11 (p)On the day that you stood aloof,
    ^(q)on the day that strangers carried off his wealth
and foreigners entered his gates
    ^(r)and cast lots for Jerusalem,
    you were like one of them.
^12 (s)But do not gloat over the day of your brother
    in the day of his misfortune;
^(t)do not rejoice over the people of Judah
    in the day of their ruin;
^(u)do not boast^[e]
    in the day of distress.
^13 (v)Do not enter the gate of my people
    in the day of their calamity;
^(w)do not gloat over his disaster
    in the day of his calamity;
^(x)do not loot his wealth
    in the day of his calamity.
^14 (y)Do not stand at the crossroads
    to cut off his fugitives;
do not hand over his survivors
    in the day of distress.

¹⁵ For ^(z)the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations.
^(aa)As you have done, it shall be done to you;
    your deeds shall return on your own head.
^16 (ab)For as you have drunk on ^(ac)my holy mountain,
    so all the nations shall drink continually;
they shall drink and swallow,
    and shall be as though they had never been.
^17 (ad)But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape,
    and it shall be holy,
^(ae)and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
^18 (af)The house of Jacob shall be a fire,
    and the house of Joseph a flame,
    and the house of Esau ^(ag)stubble;
they shall burn them and consume them,
    ^(ah)and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau,
for the Lord has spoken.

¹⁹ Those of ^(ai)the Negeb ^(aj)shall possess ^(ak)Mount Esau,
    and those of the Shephelah shall possess ^(al)the land of the Philistines;
they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of ^(am)Samaria,
    and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
²⁰ The exiles of this host of the people of Israel
    shall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as ^(an)Zarephath,
and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
    shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
^21 (ao)Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion
    to rule ^(ap)Mount Esau,
    and ^(aq)the kingdom shall be the Lord's.