7. About Edom, this is what the Lord of Hosts says:Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent?Has their wisdom rotted away?
8. Run! Turn back! Lie low,residents of Dedan, for I will bring Esau’s calamity on him at the time I punish him.
9. If grape harvesters came to you,wouldn’t they leave some gleanings? Were thieves to come in the night,they would destroy only what they wanted.
10. But I will strip Esau bare;I will uncover his secret places. He will try to hide himself, but he will be unable.His descendants will be destroyedalong with his relatives and neighbors.He will exist no longer.
11. Abandon your fatherless; I will preserve them;let your widows trust in Me.
12. “For this is what the Lord says: If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, can you possibly remain unpunished? You will not remain unpunished, for you must drink it too.
13. For by Myself I have sworn” — this is the Lord’s declaration — “Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will become ruins forever.”
14. I have heard a message from the Lord;a messenger has been sent among the nations:Assemble yourselves to come against her.Rise up for war!
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.