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 Flee! Turn back! Get down low ![fn]
  • O inhabitants of Dedan.
• For I will bring upon him the disaster of Esau
  • at the time when I will punish him.
• 9 If grape-gatherers come to you,
  • would they not leave gleanings?
• If thieves in the night,
  • they destroy only enough for them .[fn]
• 10 But I have stripped Esau bare.
  • I have uncovered his hiding places,
  • and he is not able to hide himself.
• His offspring are devastated, along with[fn] his brothers,
  • and his neighbors, and he is no more .[fn]
• 11 Leave your orphans. I will let 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 I have heard a message from Yahweh,
  • and a messenger has been sent among the nations.
• “Gather and come against her,
  • and rise for the battle.”
• 15 “For look, I will make you small among the nations,
  • despised by the humankind.
• 16 Your terror has deceived you,
  • 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,” declares[fn] Yahweh.
• 17 “And Edom will become as a horror,
  • everyone who passes by it[fn] will be appalled,
  • and will hiss because of all its blows.
• 18 As the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah
  • and their neighbors,” says Yahweh,
• “ no one[fn] will live there,
  • and the son of humankind will not dwell as an alien in it.
• 19 Look, like a lion he comes up from the thickets of the Jordan
  • to a pastureland by a constantly flowing stream .[fn]
• So I will chase him away hurriedly[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 before me ?”[fn]
• 20 Therefore[fn] hear the plan of Yahweh that he has planned against Edom,
  • and his plans that he has planned against the inhabitants of Teman.
• Surely[fn] they will drag them away,
  • the little ones of the flock.
• Surely[fn] he will cause to be desolated over them
  • their grazing place.
• 21 The earth will quake from the sound of their falling.
  • A cry of distress! Their voice will be heard at the Red Sea .[fn]
• 22 Look, like an eagle he will go up and he will swoop down,
  • 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.