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I was angry with my people;
    I profaned my heritage;
I gave them into your hand;
    you showed them no mercy;
on the aged you made your yoke
    exceedingly heavy.(A)

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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 and I am extremely angry with the nations that are at ease, for while I was only a little angry, they made the disaster worse.(A)

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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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But a prophet of the Lord was there whose name was Oded; he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria and said to them, “Because the Lord, the God of your ancestors, was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hand, but you have killed them in a rage that has reached up to heaven.(A)

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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 grim-faced nation showing no respect to the old or 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 the slaughter and violence done to your brother Jacob,
    shame shall cover you,
    and you shall be cut off forever.(A)

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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 judgment will be without mercy to anyone who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.(A)

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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 For as you have drunk on my holy mountain,
    all the nations shall drink continually;
they shall drink and gulp down[a]
    and shall be as though they had never been.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 16 Meaning of Heb uncertain

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 up Jacob to the spoiler
    and Israel to the robbers?
Was it not the Lord, against whom they sinned,[a]
    in whose ways they would not walk,
    and whose law they would not obey?(A)
25 So he poured upon him the heat of his anger
    and the fury of war;
it set him on fire all around, but he did not understand;
    it burned him, but he did not take it to heart.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 42.24 Gk Tg: Heb we sinned

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 like a desert
    and overthrew its cities,
    who would not let his prisoners go home?”(A)

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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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Against a godless nation I send him,
    and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take spoil and seize plunder,
    and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.(A)

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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 those whom you have struck down,
    and those whom you have wounded they attack still more.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 69.26 Gk Syr: Heb recount the pain of

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

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For the judgment you give will be the judgment you get, and the measure you give will be the measure you get.

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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 In the abundance of your trade
    you were filled with violence, and you sinned,
so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God,
    and I drove you out, O guardian cherub,
    from among the stones of fire.(A)

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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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