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.^[a]
3 (C)The pride of your heart has deceived you,
    you who live in the clefts of the rock,^[b]
    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.

^10 (N)Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob,
    shame shall cover you,
    ^(O)and you shall be cut off forever.
^11 (P)On the day that you stood aloof,
    ^(Q)on the day that strangers carried off his wealth
and foreigners entered his gates
    ^(R)and cast lots for Jerusalem,
    you were like one of them.
^12 (S)But do not gloat over the day of your brother
    in the day of his misfortune;
^(T)do not rejoice over the people of Judah
    in the day of their ruin;
^(U)do not boast^[e]
    in the day of distress.
^13 (V)Do not enter the gate of my people
    in the day of their calamity;
^(W)do not gloat over his disaster
    in the day of his calamity;
^(X)do not loot his wealth
    in the day of his calamity.
^14 (Y)Do not stand at the crossroads
    to cut off his fugitives;
do not hand over his survivors
    in the day of distress.

¹⁵ For ^(Z)the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations.
^(AA)As you have done, it shall be done to you;
    your deeds shall return on your own head.
^16 (AB)For as you have drunk on ^(AC)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 (AD)But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape,
    and it shall be holy,
^(AE)and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
^18 (AF)The house of Jacob shall be a fire,
    and the house of Joseph a flame,
    and the house of Esau ^(AG)stubble;
they shall burn them and consume them,
    ^(AH)and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau,
for the Lord has spoken.

¹⁹ Those of ^(AI)the Negeb ^(AJ)shall possess ^(AK)Mount Esau,
    and those of the Shephelah shall possess ^(AL)the land of the Philistines;
they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of ^(AM)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 ^(AN)Zarephath,
and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
    shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
^21 (AO)Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion
    to rule ^(AP)Mount Esau,
    and ^(AQ)the kingdom shall be the Lord's.

⁴⁶ Let not your heart faint, and be not fearful
    ^(A)at the report heard in the land,
^(B)when a report comes in one year
    and afterward a report in another year,
and violence is in the land,
    ^(C)and ruler is against ruler.

51 Thus says the Lord:
“Behold, I will stir up ^(A)the spirit of a destroyer
    against Babylon,
    against the inhabitants of Leb-kamai,^[a]

⁴ but ^(A)with righteousness he shall judge the poor,
    and decide with equity for the meek of the earth;
and he shall ^(B)strike the earth with the rod of his mouth,
    and ^(C)with the breath of his lips ^(D)he shall kill the wicked.

¹⁶ Therefore the Lord God of hosts
    will send wasting sickness among his ^(A)stout warriors,
and under his glory ^(B)a burning will be kindled,
    like the burning of fire.
^17 (C)The light of Israel will become a fire,
    and ^(D)his Holy One a flame,
and ^(E)it will burn and devour
    his thorns and briers ^(F)in one day.
¹⁸ The glory of ^(G)his forest and of his ^(H)fruitful land
    the Lord will destroy, both soul and body,
    and it will be as when a sick man wastes away.