He calls to me out of ^(B)Seir,
“Watchman, what of the night?
Watchman, what of the night?”

Thus says the Lord God ^(A)concerning Edom
^(B)(We have heard a report from the Lord,
And a messenger has been sent among the nations, saying,
“Arise, and let us rise up against her for battle”):

² “Behold, I will make you small among the nations;
You shall be greatly despised.
³ The ^(C)pride of your heart has deceived you,
You who dwell in the clefts of the rock,
Whose habitation is high;
^(D)You who say in your heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’
^4 (E)Though you ascend as high as the eagle,
And though you ^(F)set your nest among the stars,
From there I will bring you down,” says the Lord.

⁵ “If ^(G)thieves had come to you,
If robbers by night—
Oh, how you will be cut off!—
Would they not have stolen till they had enough?
If grape-gatherers had come to you,
^(H)Would they not have left some gleanings?

⁶ “Oh, how Esau shall be searched out!
How his hidden treasures shall be sought after!
⁷ All the men in your confederacy
Shall force you to the border;
^(I)The men at peace with you
Shall deceive you and prevail against you.
Those who eat your bread shall lay a ^[a]trap for you.
^(J)No^[b] one is aware of it.

⁸ “Will^(K) I not in that day,” says the Lord,
“Even destroy the wise men from Edom,
And understanding from the mountains of Esau?
⁹ Then your ^(L)mighty men, O ^(M)Teman, shall be dismayed,
To the end that everyone from the mountains of Esau
May be cut off by slaughter.

¹² “But you should not have ^(R)gazed^[c] on the day of your brother
^[d]In the day of his captivity;
Nor should you have ^(S)rejoiced over the children of Judah
In the day of their destruction;
Nor should you have spoken proudly
In the day of distress.
¹³ You should not have entered the gate of My people
In the day of their calamity.
Indeed, you should not have ^[e]gazed on their affliction
In the day of their calamity,
Nor laid hands on their substance
In the day of their calamity.
¹⁴ You should not have stood at the crossroads
To cut off those among them who escaped;
Nor should you have ^[f]delivered up those among them who remained
In the day of distress.

¹⁵ “For^(T) the day of the Lord upon all the nations is near;
^(U)As you have done, it shall be done to you;
Your ^[g]reprisal shall return upon your own head.
^16 (V)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.

“For three transgressions of ^(A)Gaza, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because they took captive the whole captivity
To deliver them up to Edom.

¹⁹ “Egypt shall be a desolation,
And Edom a desolate wilderness,
Because of violence against the people of Judah,
For they have shed innocent blood in their land.

⁴ Even though Edom has said,
“We have been impoverished,
But we will return and build the desolate places,”

“They may build, but I will ^(D)throw down;
They shall be called the Territory of Wickedness,
And the people against whom the Lord will have indignation forever.

“For three transgressions of ^(A)Edom, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because he pursued his ^(B)brother with the sword,
And cast off all pity;
His anger tore perpetually,
And he kept his wrath forever.
¹² But ^(C)I will send a fire upon Teman,
Which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.”

“Behold, O Mount Seir, I am against you;
^(C)I will stretch out My hand against you,
And make you ^[a]most desolate;
⁴ I shall lay your cities waste,
And you shall be desolate.
Then you shall know that I am the Lord.

^(B)“Is wisdom no more in Teman?
^(C)Has counsel perished from the prudent?
Has their wisdom ^(D)vanished?
⁸ Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of ^(E)Dedan!
For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him,
The time that I will punish him.
^9 (F)If grape-gatherers came to you,
Would they not leave some gleaning grapes?
If thieves by night,
Would they not destroy until they have enough?
^10 (G)But I have made Esau bare;
I have uncovered his secret places,
And he shall not be able to hide himself.
His descendants are plundered,
His brethren and his neighbors,
And ^(H)he is no more.
¹¹ Leave your fatherless children,
I will preserve them alive;
And let your widows trust in Me.”

^14 (L)I have heard a message from the Lord,
And an ambassador has been sent to the nations:
“Gather together, come against her,
And rise up to battle!

¹⁵ “For indeed, I will make you small among nations,
Despised among men.
¹⁶ Your fierceness has deceived you,
The ^(M)pride of your heart,
O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock,
Who hold the height of the hill!
^(N)Though you make your ^(O)nest as high as the eagle,
^(P)I will bring you down from there,” says the Lord.

¹⁷ “Edom also shall be an astonishment;
^(Q)Everyone who goes by it will be astonished
And will hiss at all its plagues.
^18 (R)As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah
And their neighbors,” says the Lord,
“No one shall remain there,
Nor shall a son of man dwell in it.

¹⁹ “Behold,^(S) he shall come up like a lion from ^(T)the ^[c]floodplain of the Jordan
Against the dwelling place of the strong;
But I will suddenly make him run away from her.
And who is a chosen man that I may appoint over her?
For ^(U)who is like Me?
Who will arraign Me?
And ^(V)who is that shepherd
Who will withstand Me?”

^20 (W)Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord that He has taken against Edom,
And His purposes that He has proposed against the inhabitants of Teman:
Surely the least of the flock shall ^[d]draw them out;
Surely He shall make their dwelling places desolate with them.
^21 (X)The earth shakes at the noise of their fall;
At the cry its noise is heard at the Red Sea.
²² Behold, ^(Y)He shall come up and fly like the eagle,
And spread His wings over Bozrah;
The heart of the mighty men of Edom in that day shall be
Like the heart of a woman in birth pangs.