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We have heard a message from the Lord ;^(b)
a messenger has been sent^(c) among the nations:
"Rise up,^(d) and let us go to war against her."^[a]
2 Look, I will make you insignificant^(e)
among the nations;
you will be deeply despised.
³ Your presumptuous heart has deceived you,^(f)
you who live in clefts of the rock^[b][c](g)
in your home on the heights,
who say to yourself,
"Who can bring me down to the ground?"^(h)
4 Though you seem to soar^[d] like an eagle⁽ⁱ⁾
and make your nest among the stars,^(j)
even from there I will bring you down.
This is the Lord 's declaration.

⁵ If thieves came to you,^(k)
if marauders by night—
how ravaged you would be!—
wouldn't they steal only what they wanted?
If grape pickers came to you,
wouldn't they leave some grapes?^(l)
6 How Esau will be pillaged,^(m)
his hidden treasures searched out!^(n)
7 Everyone who has a treaty with you^(o)
will drive you to the border;
everyone at peace with you
will deceive and conquer you.
Those who eat your bread^(p)
will set^[e] a trap for you.
He will be unaware of it.^(q)
8 In that day—
this is the Lord 's declaration—
will I not eliminate the wise ones of Edom^(r)
and those who understand
from the hill country of Esau?
⁹ Teman,^[f](s) your warriors^(t) will be terrified
so that everyone from the hill country of Esau
will be destroyed by slaughter.^(u)

¹⁰ You will be covered with shame
and destroyed forever
because of violence done to your brother Jacob.^(v)
11 On the day you stood aloof,^(w)
on the day strangers captured his wealth,^[g]
while foreigners entered his gate
and cast lots for Jerusalem,^(x)
you were just like one of them.^(y)
12 Do not^[h] gloat over your brother^(z)
in the day of his calamity;
do not rejoice over the people of Judah^(aa)
in the day of their destruction;
do not boastfully mock^[i](ab)
in the day of distress.^(ac)
13 Do not enter the gate of My people
in the day of their disaster.^(ad)
Yes, you—do not gloat over their misery
in the day of their disaster
and do not appropriate their possessions^(ae)
in the day of their disaster.
¹⁴ Do not stand at the crossroads^[j](af)
to cut off their fugitives,
and do not hand over their survivors
in the day of distress.

¹⁵ For the Day of the Lord ^(ag) is near,
against all the nations.^(ah)
As you have done,^(ai) so it will be done to you;
what you deserve will return on your own head.^(aj)
16 As you have drunk on My holy mountain,^(ak)
so all the nations will drink continually.^(al)
They will drink and gulp down
and be as though they had never been.
¹⁷ But there will be a deliverance on Mount Zion,^(am)
and it will be holy;^(an)
the house of Jacob will dispossess^(ao)
those who dispossessed them.^[k](ap)
18 Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire,^(aq)
and the house of Joseph, a burning flame,
but the house of Esau will be stubble;
Jacob^[l] will set them on fire and consume Edom.^[m]
Therefore no survivor will remain^(ar)
of the house of Esau,
for the Lord has spoken.

¹⁹ People from the Negev will possess^(as)
the hill country of Esau;^(at)
those from the Judean foothills will possess
the land of the Philistines.^(au)
They^[n] will possess
the territories of Ephraim and Samaria,^(av)
while Benjamin will possess Gilead.
²⁰ The exiles of the Israelites who are in Halah^[o]
and who are among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath^(aw)
as well as the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
will possess the cities of the Negev.^(ax)
21 Saviors^[p] will ascend Mount Zion^(ay)
to rule over the hill country of Esau,
but the kingdom will be the Lord 's.^(az)