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A Message Concerning Edom

7 Concerning Edom, thus says Yahweh of hosts:“Is there no longer wisdom in Teman?
- Has counsel become lost from those who understand?
- Is their wisdom rotting?
- 8 [fn] O inhabitants of Dedan.
For I will bring upon him the disaster of Esau
- at the time when I will punish him.
- 9  would they not leave gleanings?
If thieves in the night,
- they destroy only[fn]
- 10  I have uncovered his hiding places,
- and he is not able to hide himself.
His offspring are devastated,[fn] his brothers,
- and his neighbors, and[fn]
- 11 them[fn] live. And your widows, let them trust in me.”

12 For thus says Yahweh, “Look, those who are not condemned[fn] to drink the cup must certainly drink it.[fn] And are you the one who will go entirely unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must certainly drink it.[fn] 13 For I have sworn by myself,” declares[fn] Yahweh, “that Bozrah will become as a horror, as a disgrace, as a waste, and as a curse. And all her towns will be everlasting sites of ruins.”[fn]

14 and a messenger has been sent among the nations.

“Gather and come against her,
- and rise for the battle.”
- 15  despised by the humankind.
- 16  the pride of your heart,
O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock,
- you who seize the height of the hill.
Though you make your nest high like the eagle,
- from there I will bring you down,”[fn] Yahweh.
- 17 [fn] will be appalled,
- and will hiss because of all its blows.
- 18  and their neighbors,” says Yahweh,
“[fn] will live there,
- and the son of humankind will not dwell as an alien in it.
- 19  to[fn]
So[fn] from it.
- And whoever is chosen I will appoint over it.
For who is like me, and who can summon me?
- And who is this, the shepherd who can stand[fn]
- 20 [fn] hear the plan of Yahweh that he has planned against Edom, and his plans that he has planned against the inhabitants of Teman.
[fn] they will drag them away,
- the little ones of the flock.
[fn] he will cause to be desolated over them
- their grazing place.
- 21  A cry of distress! Their voice will be heard at[fn]
- 22  and he will spread out his wings against Bozrah.
And the heart of the warriors of Edom will be in that day
- like the heart of a woman who is in labor.

49:7 Literally “make deep to dwell”

49:7 Literally “their enough”

49:7 Literally “and”

49:7 Literally “and not he”

49:7 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

49:12 Literally “who there is not their justice”

49:12 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

49:13 Literally “a declaration of”

49:13 Literally “sites of ruins of eternity”

49:13 Literally “a declaration of”

49:13 Literally “all who passes by it”

49:13 Literally “not a man”

49:13 Literally “a pasture of everflowing”

49:13 Literally “I will do in an instant I will chase him away”

49:13 Literally “to the face of me”

49:13 Literally “To thus”

49:13 Literally “If not”

49:13 Hebrew “Sea of Reeds”

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A Message Concerning Edom