ESV Study Bible | English Standard Version

Thus says the Lord God a concerning Edom:
b We have heard a report from the Lord,
and a messenger has been sent among the nations:
“Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!”
 2 Behold, I will make you small among the nations;
you shall be utterly despised. [1]
 3 c The pride of your heart has deceived you,
you who live in the clefts of the rock, [2]
in your lofty dwelling,
d who say in your heart,
“Who will bring me down to the ground?”
 4 Though you soar aloft like the eagle,
though your nest is set among the stars,
from there I will bring you down,
declares the Lord.

 5 If e thieves came to you,
if plunderers came by night—
how you have been destroyed!—
would they not steal only enough for themselves?
If e grape gatherers came to you,
would they not leave gleanings?
 6 f How Esau has been pillaged,
his treasures sought out!
 7 All your allies have driven you to your border;
those at peace with you have deceived you;
they have prevailed against you;
g those who eat your bread [3] have set a trap beneath you—
h you have [4] no understanding.

 8 i Will I not on that day, declares the Lord,
destroy the wise men out of Edom,
and understanding out of j Mount Esau?
 9 And your mighty men shall be dismayed, k O Teman,
so that every man from j Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.

10 l Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob,
shame shall cover you,
m and you shall be cut off forever.
11 n On the day that you stood aloof,
o on the day that strangers carried off his wealth
and foreigners entered his gates
p and cast lots for Jerusalem,
you were like one of them.
12 q But do not gloat over the day of your brother
in the day of his misfortune;
r do not rejoice over the people of Judah
in the day of their ruin;
s do not boast [5]
in the day of distress.
13 t Do not enter the gate of my people
in the day of their calamity;
t do not gloat over his disaster
in the day of his calamity;
u do not loot his wealth
in the day of his calamity.
14 v Do not stand at the crossroads
to cut off his fugitives;
do not hand over his survivors
in the day of distress.

15 For w the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations.
x As you have done, it shall be done to you;
your deeds shall return on your own head.
16 y For as you have drunk on z my holy mountain,
so all the nations shall drink continually;
they shall drink and swallow,
and shall be as though they had never been.
17 a But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape,
and it shall be holy,
b and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
18 c The house of Jacob shall be a fire,
and the house of Joseph a flame,
and the house of Esau d stubble;
they shall burn them and consume them,
e and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau,
for the Lord has spoken.

19 Those of f the Negeb b shall possess g Mount Esau,
and those of the Shephelah shall possess h the land of the Philistines;
they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of i Samaria,
and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
20 The exiles of this host of the people of Israel
shall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as j Zarephath,
and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
21 k Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion
to rule g Mount Esau,
and l the kingdom shall be the Lord's.