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

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but I have hated Esau; I have made his hill country a desolation and his heritage a desert for jackals.(A) 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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Therefore, thus says the Lord God: I will bring a sword upon you and will cut off from you human and animal,(A)

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23 Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who have shaved temples;(A)

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Judgment on Edom

Concerning Edom.

Thus says the Lord of hosts:

Is there no longer wisdom in Teman?
    Has counsel perished from the prudent?
    Has their wisdom vanished?(A)
Flee; turn back; get down low,
    inhabitants of Dedan!
For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him,
    the time when I punish him.(B)

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

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Your warriors shall be shattered, O Teman,
    so that everyone from Mount Esau will be cut off.(A)

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

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

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

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19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off humans and animals from it,(A) 20 even if Noah, Daniel,[a] and Job were in it, as I live, says the Lord God, they would save neither son nor daughter; they would save only their own lives by their righteousness.

21 Therefore thus says the Lord God: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four deadly acts of judgment, sword, famine, wild animals, and pestilence, to cut off humans and animals from it!(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 14.20 Or Danel

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

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13 Mortal, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly and I stretch out my hand against it and cut off its supply of bread[a] and send famine upon it and cut off from it humans and animals,(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 14.13 Heb staff of bread