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Concerning Edom.Thus says Yahweh of hosts,"Is there no longer any wisdom in Teman?Has counsel been lost to the understanding?Has their wisdom decayed?

Therefore, her young men will fall in her open squares,And all the men of war will be silenced in that day," declares Yahweh of hosts.

"Thus says Yahweh of hosts,‘Behold, I am going to break the bow of Elam,The finest of their might.

Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Behold, I am going to punish the king of Babylon and his land, just as I punished the king of Assyria.

"Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one,"Declares Lord Yahweh of hosts,"For your day has come,The time when I will punish you.

Thus says Yahweh of hosts,"The sons of Israel are oppressed,And the sons of Judah as well;And all who took them captive have held them fast;They have refused to let them go.

Their Redeemer is strong, Yahweh of hosts is His name;He will vigorously plead their caseSo that He may bring relief to the earth,But turmoil to the inhabitants of Babylon.

For neither Israel nor Judah has been widowedBy his God, by Yahweh of hosts,Although their land is full of guiltBefore the Holy One of Israel.

Yahweh of hosts has sworn by Himself:"Surely I will fill you with a population like locusts,And they will cry out with shouts of victory over you."

The portion of Jacob is not like these;For the Maker of all is He,And of the tribe of His inheritance;Yahweh of hosts is His name.

For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel:"The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floorAt the time it is stamped firm;Yet in a little while the time of harvest will come for her."

"I will make her princes and her wise men drunk,Her governors, her prefects, and her mighty men,That they may sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake up,"Declares the King, whose name is Yahweh of hosts.

Thus says Yahweh of hosts,"The broad wall of Babylon will be completely razed,And her high gates will be set on fire;So the peoples will toil for nothing,And the nations become weary only for fire."

Now Lord Yahweh of hosts,The One who touches the land so that it melts,And all those who inhabit it mourn,And all of it rises up like the NileAnd subsides like the Nile of Egypt;

And each of them will sit under his vineAnd under his fig tree,With no one to make them tremble,For the mouth of Yahweh of hosts has spoken.

"Behold, I am against you," declares Yahweh of hosts. "And I will burn up her chariots in smoke, and a sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the land, and no longer will the voice of your messengers be heard."

"Behold, I am against you," declares Yahweh of hosts;"And I will uncover your skirts over your faceAnd show to the nations your nakednessAnd to the kingdoms your disgrace.

Therefore, as I live," declares Yahweh of hosts,The God of Israel,"Surely Moab will be like SodomAnd the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah—A place possessed by nettles and salt pits,And a perpetual desolation.The remnant of My people will plunder them,And the remainder of My nation will inherit them."

This they will have in return for their pride because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of hosts.

"Thus says Yahweh of hosts, ‘This people says, "The time has not come, even the time for the house of Yahweh to be rebuilt."'"