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12 in order that they may possess the remnant of Edom
    and all the nations who are called by my name,
    says the Lord who does this.(A)

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everyone who is called by my name,
    whom I created for my glory,
    whom I formed and made.”(A)

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The Righteousness of God’s Judgment

65 I was ready to be sought out by those who did not ask,
    to be found by those who did not seek me.
I said, “Here I am, here I am,”
    to a nation that did not call on my name.(A)

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17 so that all other peoples may seek the Lord—
    even all the gentiles over whom my name has been called.
        Thus says the Lord, who has been making these things

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18 Incline your ear, O my God, and hear. Open your eyes and look at our desolation and the city that bears your name. We do not present our supplication before you on the ground of our righteousness but on the ground of your great mercies.(A) 19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, listen and act and do not delay! For your own sake, O my God, because your city and your people bear your name!”(B)

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Why should you be like someone confused,
    like a mighty warrior who cannot give help?
Yet you, O Lord, are in the midst of us,
    and we are called by your name;
    do not forsake us!(A)

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Restoration of Judah

14 But the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel and will settle them in their own land, and aliens will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.(A) And the nations will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess the nations[a] as male and female slaves in the Lord’s land; they will take captive those who were their captors and rule over those who oppressed them.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 14.2 Heb them

17 I see him but not now;
    I behold him but not near—
a star shall come out of Jacob,
    and a scepter shall rise out of Israel;
it shall crush the foreheads[a] of Moab
    and the heads[b] of all the Shethites.(A)
18 Edom will become a possession,
    Seir a possession of its enemies,
    while Israel does valiantly.(B)

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  1. 24.17 Or borderlands
  2. 24.17 Or territory

16 Your words were found, and I ate them,
    and your words became to me a joy
    and the delight of my heart,
for I am called by your name,
    O Lord, God of hosts.(A)

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19 We have long been like those whom you do not rule,
    like those not called by your name.(A)

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14 But they shall swoop down on the backs of the Philistines in the west;
    together they shall plunder the people of the east.
They shall put forth their hand against Edom and Moab,
    and the Ammonites shall obey them.(A)

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Moab is my washbasin;
    on Edom I hurl my shoe;
    over Philistia I shout in triumph.”(A)

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37 Isaac answered Esau, “I have already made him your lord, and I have given him all his brothers as servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?”(A)

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29 Let peoples serve you
    and nations bow down to you.
Be lord over your brothers,
    and may your mother’s sons bow down to you.
Cursed be everyone who curses you,
    and blessed be everyone who blesses you!”(A)

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If Edom says, ‘We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins,’ the Lord of hosts says: They may build, but I will tear down, until they are called the wicked country, the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.

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18 The house of Jacob shall be a fire,
    the house of Joseph a flame,
    and the house of Esau stubble;
they shall burn them and consume them,
    and there shall be no survivor of the house of Esau,
            for the Lord has spoken.(A)
19 Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau,
    and those of the Shephelah the land of the Philistines;
they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria,
    and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.(B)
20 The exiles of the Israelites who are in Halah[a]
    shall possess[b] Phoenicia as far as Zarephath,
and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
    shall possess the towns of the Negeb.(C)
21 Those who have been saved[c] shall go up to Mount Zion
    to rule Mount Esau,
    and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 20 Cn: Heb in this army
  2. 20 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain
  3. 21 Gk Syr: Heb Saviors

I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the Lord has spoken.(A)

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