7. Concerning Edom:This is what the Lord Almighty says:‘Is there no longer wisdom in Teman?Has counsel perished from the prudent?Has their wisdom decayed?
8. Turn and flee, hide in deep caves,you who live in Dedan,for I will bring disaster on Esauat the time when I punish him.
9. If grape-pickers came to you,would they not leave a few grapes?If thieves came during the night,would they not steal only as much as they wanted?
10. But I will strip Esau bare;I will uncover his hiding-places,so that he cannot conceal himself.His armed men are destroyed,also his allies and neighbours,so there is no one to say,
11. “Leave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive.Your widows too can depend on me.” ’
12. This is what the Lord says: ‘If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, why should you go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, but must drink it.
13. I swear by myself,’ declares the Lord, ‘that Bozrah will become a ruin and a curse, an object of horror and reproach; and all its towns will be in ruins for ever.’
14. I have heard a message from the Lord;an envoy was sent to the nations to say,‘Assemble yourselves to attack it!Rise up for battle!’
15. ‘Now I will make you small among the nations,despised by mankind.
16. The terror you inspireand the pride of your heart have deceived you,you who live in the clefts of the rocks,who occupy the heights of the hill.Though you build your nest as high as the eagle’s,from there I will bring you down,’declares the Lord.
17. ‘Edom will become an object of horror;all who pass by will be appalled and will scoffbecause of all its wounds.