63 Who’s that coming from Edom,[ref]

coming from Batserah dressed in crimson?

This one dressed like an honoured person,

marching in the greatness of his strength?

It’s me, Yahweh, proclaiming what’s right—powerful to rescue.

2 What’s that red on your clothes?

Your clothes look like you’ve been treading grapes in a wine-pressing pit?

3 I’ve trodden in the wine-pressing pit alone,

≈ and there wasn’t anyone from the nations with me.

I trod them in my anger,

≈ and trampled them in my fury.[ref]

and their blood is splattered onto my clothes.[ref]

≈ All my clothes are stained

4 because I had decided that this was the day of vengeance,

and the year had come for me to buy my people’s freedom.

5 I looked and there wasn’t anyone to help,

≈ and I was appalled that no one assisted,

but my power gave me victory,

≈ and my rage sustained me.[ref]

6 I trod down peoples in my anger,

and in my rage, I made them drunk,

and I poured their blood out on the ground.

7 Commander-in-chief Yahweh says this about Edom:[ref]

Isn’t there any wisdom left in Teyman district?

Has good advice disappeared from those who have understanding?

Has their wisdom become corrupted?

8 Turn and run away.

Stay in deep caves, you inhabitants of Dedan,

because I’m bringing Esav’s (Esau’s) disaster onto Edom when I punish it.

9 If grape harvesters came to you, wouldn’t they at least leave a little bit behind?

If thieves came in the night, wouldn’t they steal only as much as they needed?

10 However, I’ll strip Esav (i.e., Edom) bare.

I’ve uncovered his secret places so he can’t hide himself.

His descendants and other relatives and neighbours will be devastated and destroyed.

11 Leave your orphans behind.

I’ll take care of their lives,

≈ and your widows can rely on me.

12 Yes, Yahweh says this: Listen, even those who didn’t deserve it, must certainly drink some of the cup of suffering. Did you think you yourself would escape being punished? You won’t, because you’ll certainly be included in it 13 because Yahweh declares that I’ve solemnly promised that Batserah will become a horror, a disgrace, a devastation, and an object for cursing. All its cities will be forever ruined.

14 I’ve heard a report from Yahweh,

and a messenger has been sent out to the nations,

‘Gather together and attack Edom.

Get ready for battle.’ 15 Yes, listen, I’ve made you minor compared to the other nations,

despised among humankind.

16 As for your fearsomeness, your arrogance has deceived you, inhabitants of places on the cliff—

you who’ve occupied the highest hills so that you may make your nest high like an eagle.

I’ll bring you down from there.

That is Yahweh’s declaration.

17 Edom will become a horror to everyone passing by it.

Those who do will be appalled and hiss about all its disasters.

18 Yahweh says that just like the overthrow of Sedom and Amorah (Gomorrah) and their neighbours,[ref]

no one will live there—no human would want to stay there.

19 Listen, he’ll go up like a lion from the forests along the Yarden (Jordan) river to the green pasturelands,

because I’ll quickly make Edom flee from it,

and I’ll chose someone to be charge of it.

Indeed, no one else is like me, and who can challenge my decision?

What shepherd can stand against me?

20 So listen to the plans that Yahweh has decided against Edom—

≈ the intentions that he’s formed against Teyman’s inhabitants.

They’ll be dragged away, even the smallest flock.

→ Their pasturelands will be turned into ruined places.

21 The ground will shake at the sound of their falling.

The sound of distressed shouts will be heard right across at the Red Sea.

22 Listen, someone will ascend like an eagle, and swoop down and spread his wings over Batserah.

Then on that day, Edom’s soldiers will be apprehensive like women in labour.”

12 The master Yahweh also says, ‘Edom has taken vengeance against the kingdom of Yehudah (Judah) and has done wrong by doing that.[ref] 13 Therefore, the master Yahweh says: I’ll hit Edom with my hand and destroy every person and animal there. I’ll make it a ruined, abandoned place, from Teyman all the way to Dedan—they’ll be killed by the sword. 14 I’ll use my people Yisrael (Israel) to place my vengeance on Edom, and they’ll apply my anger and fury to Edom so they’ll know my vengeance. That’s the master Yahweh’s declaration.’

We have heard from Yahweh and a messenger has been sent to the nations, telling them:

Get everything ready then go into battle against Edom.

2 And Yahweh says to Edom:

Listen,

I will make you into an insignificant nation.

≈ You’ll become utterly despised.

3 Your inner pride has deceived you,

you who live on the rocky cliffs,

≈ with your homes up there so high.

You say to yourselves that

no one can bring you down to the ground.

4 If you go up high like an eagle,

≈ even if your nest was up between the stars,

Yahweh declares that his command can bring you down from there.

5 If it was thieves who came to destroy you in the night,

(and yes, you’re going to be destroyed)

they would only steal what they wanted.

Or if it was grape-pickers who came to you,

at least they’d leave behind the smaller grapes.

6 How Esav’s (Esau’s) descendants will be looted.

≈ Their hidden treasures will be found and taken.

7 Those who have treaties with you will force you to the border.

≈ Those who talk about peace will deceive you.

≈ Those who eat meals with you will set a trap for you.

You have no idea what’s about to hit you.

8 Yahweh will make a declaration on that day.

The wise people of Edom will be destroyed.

≈ Understanding will disappear from Esav’s (Esau’s) hill.

9 And you the city of Teyman, your warriors will be shattered,

≈ so that everyone from Esav’s hill country will be slaughtered.

10 Because of your violence against your brother Ya’akov’s (Jacob’s) descendants,

shame will overcome you,

and you’ll be destroyed forever.

11 You just stood and watched on that day when strangers carried away their wealth.

≈ When foreigners entered their gates and took possession of Yerushalem (Jerusalem), you wished it was you doing that.

12 You shouldn’t have gloated over your cousins on the day of their misfortune.

≈ And you shouldn’t have celebrated about the destruction of the people of Yehudah (Judah).

You shouldn’t have bragged in their time of distress.

13 You shouldn’t have gone into their city at the time of their calamity.

You shouldn’t have gloated—yes, you—over their misery in their time of disaster.

And you women shouldn’t have grabbed their wealth on the day of their catastrophe.

14 You shouldn’t have stood at the crossroads to kill those trying to escape,

And you shouldn’t have handed-over any survivors that you’d captured in their time of trouble.[ref]

2 “I have loved you all,” says Yahweh, but you say, “How have you shown your love for us?”

“Wasn’t Esav (Esau) Ya’akov’s (Jacob’s) brother?” declares Yahweh. “Yet I’ve loved Ya’akov[ref] 3 and rejected Esav. I’ve turned the hills where Esav lived into a wasteland and given his inheritance to the wild jackals.”

4 If Esav’s descendants in Edom say, “We’ve been crushed, but we’ll return and rebuild what was destroyed,” then Commander-in-chief Yahweh will say, “They might build, but I will tear down. Others will call them ‘The country of wickedness’ and ‘The people who Yahweh is forever angry with.’

5 Your own eyes will see it, and you’ll say, ‘Yahweh is great even outside Yisrael’s (Israel’s) borders.’ ”