15. Look, I will certainly make you insignificant among the nations,despised among humanity.
16. As to the terror you cause, your presumptuous heart has deceived you.You who live in the clefts of the rock, you who occupy the mountain summit,though you elevate your nest like the eagle,even from there I will bring you down.This is the Lord’s declaration.
17. “Edom will become a desolation. Everyone who passes by her will be horrified and scoff because of all her wounds.
18. As when Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors,” says the Lord, “no one will live there; no human being will even stay in it as a temporary resident.
19. “Look, it will be like a lion coming from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered grazing land. Indeed, I will chase Edom away from her land in a flash. I will appoint whoever is chosen for her. For who is like Me? Who will summon Me? Who is the shepherd who can stand against Me? ”
20. Therefore, hear the plans that the Lord has drawn up against Edom and the strategies He has devised against the people of Teman: The flock’s little lambs will certainly be dragged away, and their grazing land will be made desolate because of them.
21. At the sound of their fall the earth will quake; the sound of her cry will be heard at the Red Sea.
22. Look! It will be like an eagle soaring upward, then swooping down and spreading its wings over Bozrah. In that day the hearts of Edom’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman with contractions.
23. About Damascus: Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard a bad report and are agitated;in the sea there is anxiety that cannot be calmed.
24. Damascus has become weak;she has turned to run;panic has gripped her.Distress and labor pains have seized herlike a woman in labor.
25. How can the city of praise not be abandoned, the town that brings Me joy?
26. Therefore, her young men will fall in her public squares;all the warriors will perish in that day.This is the declaration ofthe Lord of Hosts.
27. I will set fire to the wall of Damascus;it will consume Ben-hadad’s citadels.
28. About Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar, Babylon’s king, defeated, this is what the Lord says:Rise up, go against Kedar,and destroy the people of the east!
29. They will take their tents and their flocksalong with their tent curtains and all their equipment.They will take their camels for themselves.They will call out to them:Terror is on every side!