Isaiah 34:5-8
Christian Standard Bible
The Judgment of Edom
5 When my sword has drunk its fill[a](A) in the heavens,
it will then come down on Edom(B)
and on the people I have set apart for destruction.
6 The Lord’s sword is covered with blood.
It drips with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams.(C)
For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,(D)
a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 The wild oxen will be struck[b] down with them,
and young bulls with the mighty bulls.
Their land will be soaked with[c] blood,
and their soil will be saturated with fat.
8 For the Lord has a day of vengeance,(E)
a time of paying back Edom
for its hostility against Zion.
Jeremiah 49:7-22
Christian Standard Bible
Prophecies against Edom
7 About Edom,(A) this is what the Lord of Armies says:
Is there no longer wisdom in Teman?(B)
Has counsel perished from the prudent?
Has their wisdom rotted away?(C)
8 Run! Turn back! Lie low,
residents of Dedan,(D)
for I will bring Esau’s calamity on him(E)
at the time I punish him.(F)
9 If grape harvesters came to you,
wouldn’t they leave a few grapes?(G)
Were thieves to come in the night,
they would destroy only what they wanted.(H)
10 But I will strip Esau bare;
I will uncover his secret places.(I)
He will try to hide,(J) but he will be unable.
His descendants will be destroyed
along with his relatives and neighbors.
He will exist no longer.(K)
11 Abandon your fatherless; I will preserve them;
let your widows trust in me.(L)
12 For this is what the Lord says: “If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, can you possibly remain unpunished? You will not remain unpunished, for you must drink it too. 13 For by myself I have sworn”(M)—this is the Lord’s declaration—“Bozrah[a] will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and an example for cursing, and all its surrounding cities will become ruins forever.”(N)
14 I have heard an envoy from the Lord;
a messenger has been sent among the nations:
Assemble yourselves to come against her.
Rise up for war!
15 I will certainly make you insignificant among the nations,
despised among humanity.
16 As to the terror you cause,[b]
your arrogant heart has deceived you.
You who live in the clefts of the rock,[c]
you who occupy the mountain summit,
though you elevate your nest like the eagles,
even from there I will bring you down.
This is the Lord’s declaration.(O)
17 “Edom will become a desolation. Everyone who passes by her will be appalled and scoff because of all her wounds.(P) 18 As when Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors,”(Q) says the Lord, “no one will live there; no human being will stay in it even temporarily.(R)
19 “Look, it will be like a lion coming from the thickets[d] of the Jordan to the watered grazing land.(S) I will chase Edom away from her land in a flash. I will appoint whoever is chosen for her. For who is like me?(T) Who will issue me a summons?(U) Who is the shepherd who can stand against me?” (V)
20 Therefore, hear the plans that the Lord has drawn up against Edom and the strategies he has devised against the people of Teman:(W) The flock’s little lambs will certainly be dragged away,(X) and their grazing land will be made desolate because of them.(Y) 21 At the sound of their fall the earth will quake;(Z) the sound of her cry will be heard at the Red Sea.(AA) 22 Look! It will be like an eagle soaring upward, then swooping down and spreading its wings over Bozrah. In that day the hearts of Edom’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman with contractions.(AB)
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Obadiah 10-15
Christian Standard Bible
Edom’s Sins against Judah
10 You will be covered with shame
and destroyed forever
because of violence done to your brother Jacob.(A)
11 On the day you stood aloof,(B)
on the day strangers captured his wealth,[a]
while foreigners entered his city gate
and cast lots for Jerusalem,(C)
you were just like one of them.(D)
12 Do not[b] gloat over your brother(E)
in the day of his calamity;
do not rejoice over the people of Judah(F)
in the day of their destruction;
do not boastfully mock[c](G)
in the day of distress.(H)
13 Do not enter my people’s city gate
in the day of their disaster.(I)
Yes, you—do not gloat over their misery
in the day of their disaster,
and do not appropriate their possessions(J)
in the day of their disaster.
14 Do not stand at the crossroads[d](K)
to cut off their fugitives,
and do not hand over their survivors
in the day of distress.
Judgment of the Nations
15 For the day of the Lord(L) is near,
against all the nations.(M)
As you have done,(N) it will be done to you;
what you deserve will return on your own head.(O)
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