13 therefore thus says the Lord God, (A)I will stretch out my hand against Edom and cut off from it man and beast. And I will make it desolate; from (B)Teman even to (C)Dedan they shall fall by the sword.

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13 therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will stretch out my hand(A) against Edom and kill both man and beast.(B) I will lay it waste, and from Teman(C) to Dedan(D) they will fall by the sword.(E)

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but Esau I have hated. (A)I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.” 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, and they will be called ‘the wicked country,’ and ‘the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.’”

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but Esau I have hated,(A) and I have turned his hill country into a wasteland(B) and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.(C)

Edom(D) may say, “Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild(E) the ruins.”

But this is what the Lord Almighty says: “They may build, but I will demolish.(F) They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath of the Lord.(G)

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Therefore thus says the Lord God: (A)Behold, I will bring a sword upon you, and will cut off from you man and beast,

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“‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will bring a sword against you and kill both man and beast.(A)

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23 (A)Dedan, (B)Tema, (C)Buz, and all who cut (D)the corners of their hair;

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23 Dedan,(A) Tema,(B) Buz(C) and all who are in distant places[a];(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 25:23 Or who clip the hair by their foreheads

Judgment on Edom

Concerning (A)Edom.

Thus says the Lord of hosts:

(B)“Is wisdom no more in (C)Teman?
    (D)Has counsel perished from the prudent?
    (E)Has their wisdom vanished?
(F)Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths,
    O inhabitants of (G)Dedan!
For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him,
    (H)the time when I punish him.

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A Message About Edom(A)(B)

Concerning Edom:(C)

This is what the Lord Almighty says:

“Is there no longer wisdom in Teman?(D)
    Has counsel perished from the prudent?
    Has their wisdom decayed?
Turn and flee, hide in deep caves,(E)
    you who live in Dedan,(F)
for I will bring disaster on Esau
    at the time when I punish him.

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God came from (A)Teman,
    (B)and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah
His splendor covered the heavens,
    and the earth was full of his praise.

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God came from Teman,(A)
    the Holy One(B) from Mount Paran.[a](C)
His glory covered the heavens(D)
    and his praise filled the earth.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 3:3 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the middle of verse 9 and at the end of verse 13.

And your mighty men shall be dismayed, (A)O Teman,
    so that every man from (B)Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.

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Your warriors, Teman,(A) will be terrified,
    and everyone in Esau’s mountains
    will be cut down in the slaughter.

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12 So I will send a fire upon (A)Teman,
    and it shall devour the strongholds of (B)Bozrah.”

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12 I will send fire on Teman(A)
    that will consume the fortresses of Bozrah.(B)

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16 therefore thus says the Lord God, (A)Behold, I will stretch out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off (B)the Cherethites and destroy the rest of the seacoast.

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16 therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am about to stretch out my hand against the Philistines,(A) and I will wipe out the Kerethites(B) and destroy those remaining along the coast.(C)

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therefore, behold, (A)I have stretched out my hand against you, and (B)will hand you over as plunder to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

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therefore I will stretch out my hand(A) against you and give you as plunder(B) to the nations. I will wipe you out from among the nations and exterminate you from the countries. I will destroy(C) you, and you will know that I am the Lord.(D)’”

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19 “Or (A)if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off from it man and beast, 20 even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.

21 “For thus says the Lord God: How much more (B)when I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, (C)sword, (D)famine, (E)wild beasts, and (F)pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!

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19 “Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out my wrath(A) on it through bloodshed,(B) killing its people and their animals,(C) 20 as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, even if Noah, Daniel and Job were in it, they could save neither son nor daughter. They would save only themselves by their righteousness.(D)

21 “For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem my four dreadful judgments(E)—sword(F) and famine(G) and wild beasts and plague(H)—to kill its men and their animals!(I)

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17 “Or (A)if I bring a sword upon that land and say, Let a sword pass through the land, (B)and I cut off from it man and beast,

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17 “Or if I bring a sword(A) against that country and say, ‘Let the sword pass throughout the land,’ and I kill its people and their animals,(B)

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13 (A)“Son of man, when a land sins against me (B)by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it and (C)break its supply[a] of bread and send famine upon it, and (D)cut off from it man and beast,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 14:13 Hebrew staff

13 “Son of man, if a country sins(A) against me by being unfaithful and I stretch out my hand against it to cut off its food supply(B) and send famine upon it and kill its people and their animals,(C)

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