(A)I was angry with My people;
(B)I have profaned My inheritance,
And given them into your hand.
You showed them no mercy;
(C)On the elderly you laid your yoke very heavily.

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I was angry(A) with my people
    and desecrated my inheritance;(B)
I gave them into your hand,(C)
    and you showed them no mercy.(D)
Even on the aged
    you laid a very heavy yoke.

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15 I am exceedingly angry with the nations at ease;
For (A)I was a little angry,
And they helped—but with evil intent.

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15 and I am very angry with the nations that feel secure.(A) I was only a little angry,(B) but they went too far with the punishment.’(C)

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Israel Returns the Captives

But a (A)prophet of the Lord was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out before the army that came to Samaria, and said to them: “Look, (B)because the Lord God of your fathers was angry with Judah, He has delivered them into your hand; but you have killed them in a rage that (C)reaches up to heaven.

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But a prophet of the Lord named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army when it returned to Samaria. He said to them, “Because the Lord, the God of your ancestors, was angry(A) with Judah, he gave them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches to heaven.(B)

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50 a nation of fierce countenance, (A)which does not respect the elderly nor show favor to the young.

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50 a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old(A) or pity for the young.

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Edom Mistreated His Brother

10 “For (A)violence against your brother Jacob,
Shame shall cover you,
And (B)you shall be cut off forever.

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10 Because of the violence(A) against your brother Jacob,(B)
    you will be covered with shame;
    you will be destroyed forever.(C)

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13 For (A)judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown (B)no (C)mercy. (D)Mercy triumphs over judgment.

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13 because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful.(A) Mercy triumphs over judgment.

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16 (A)For as you drank on My holy mountain,
So shall all the nations drink continually;
Yes, they shall drink, and swallow,
And they shall be as though they had never been.

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16 Just as you drank(A) on my holy hill,(B)
    so all the nations will drink(C) continually;
they will drink and drink
    and be as if they had never been.(D)

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24 Who gave Jacob for plunder, and Israel to the robbers?
Was it not the Lord,
He against whom we have sinned?
(A)For they would not walk in His ways,
Nor were they obedient to His law.
25 Therefore He has poured on him the fury of His anger
And the strength of battle;
(B)It has set him on fire all around,
(C)Yet he did not know;
And it burned him,
Yet he did not take it to (D)heart.

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24 Who handed Jacob over to become loot,
    and Israel to the plunderers?(A)
Was it not the Lord,(B)
    against whom we have sinned?
For they would not follow(C) his ways;
    they did not obey his law.(D)
25 So he poured out on them his burning anger,(E)
    the violence of war.
It enveloped them in flames,(F) yet they did not understand;(G)
    it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.(H)

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17 Who made the world as a wilderness
And destroyed its cities,
Who [a]did not open the house of his prisoners?’

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 14:17 Would not release

17 the man who made the world a wilderness,(A)
    who overthrew(B) its cities
    and would not let his captives go home?”(C)

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I will send him against (A)an ungodly nation,
And against the people of My wrath
I will (B)give him charge,
To seize the spoil, to take the prey,
And to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

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I send him against a godless(A) nation,
    I dispatch(B) him against a people who anger me,(C)
to seize loot and snatch plunder,(D)
    and to trample(E) them down like mud in the streets.

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26 For they persecute the ones (A)You have struck,
And talk of the grief of those You have wounded.

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26 For they persecute those you wound
    and talk about the pain of those you hurt.(A)

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For with what [a]judgment you judge, you will be judged; (A)and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 7:2 Condemnation

For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.(A)

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16 “By the abundance of your trading
You became filled with violence within,
And you sinned;
Therefore I cast you as a profane thing
Out of the mountain of God;
And I destroyed you, (A)O covering cherub,
From the midst of the fiery stones.

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16 Through your widespread trade
    you were filled with violence,(A)
    and you sinned.
So I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God,
    and I expelled you, guardian cherub,(B)
    from among the fiery stones.

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