God will punish all the nearby nations

15 “There will soon be the time when I, Yahweh, will judge and punish all the nations.

And you people of Edom will experience the same disasters that you caused others to experience.

The same evil things that you have done to others will happen to you.

16 My people in Jerusalem have been punished

because I was very angry with them.

It is as though [MET] they drank a cup of very bitter liquid on Zion, my sacred hill.

But I will punish [MET] all the other nations even more severely,

and cause them to disappear completely.

17 But some people in Jerusalem will escape,

and Jerusalem will become a very holy/sacred place.

Then the descendants of Jacob will conquer and possess again the land that truly belongs to them.

18 The descendants [MTY] of Jacob and his son Joseph will be like [MET] a fire,

and the people [MTY] of Edom will be like [MET] stubble that will be completely burned in that fire.

Not one person will remain alive.

That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it.”

19 The Israeli people who live in the southern desert are the ones who will capture Edom.

And those who live in the western foothills will capture the Phoenicia region and the areas of Ephraim and Samaria.

And people of the tribe of Benjamin will conquer the Gilead region.

20 Those who were ◄exiled in/forced to go to► Babylon will return to their land

and capture the Phoenicia region as far north as Zarephath on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

People of Jerusalem who were captured and taken to Sardis, the capital city of the Lydia region, will capture the towns in the southern desert.

21 The army of Jerusalem will attack Edom and conquer it,

and Yahweh will be their king.