12. Don’t gloat over your relative’s misfortuneor be happy when the people of Judah are destroyed.Don’t brag so much when they’re in distress.
13. Don’t march through the gates of my people when disaster strikesor gloat over their misery when disaster strikes.Don’t take their wealth when disaster strikes.
14. Don’t stand at the crossroads to kill their refugees.Don’t hand over their survivors when they’re in distress.
15. “The day of the Lord is near for all nations.Edom, you will be treated as you have treated others.You will get back what you have given.
16. As you, Israel, drank on my holy mountain,so all nations will drink in turn.They will drink and guzzle down everything in it.They will be like those who have never existed.
17. “But refugees will live on Mount Zion.It will be holy.The descendants of Jacob will get back their possessions.
18. The descendants of Jacob will be like a fire.The descendants of Joseph will be like a flame.But the descendants of Esau will be like straw.They will be burned and destroyed.There will be no one left among the descendants of Esau.”The Lord has spoken.
19. “People from the Negev will take possession of Esau’s mountain.People from the foothills will take possession of Philistia.They will take possession of the lands of Ephraim and Samaria,and ⌊the descendants of⌋ Benjamin will take possession of Gilead.
20. Exiles from Israel will take possession of Canaan.They will possess land as far as Zarephath.Exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharadwill take possession of the cities in the Negev.