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

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15 (A)And I am exceedingly angry with the nations that are (B)at ease; (C)for while I was angry but a little, (D)they furthered the disaster.

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

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50 a hard-faced nation (A)who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young.

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Edom's Violence Against Jacob

10 (A)Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob,
    shame shall cover you,
    (B)and you shall be cut off forever.

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

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16 (A)For as you have drunk on (B)my holy mountain,
    so all the nations shall drink continually;
they shall drink and swallow,
    and shall be as though they had never been.

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24 Who gave up Jacob to the looter,
    and Israel to the plunderers?
Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned,
    in whose ways they would not walk,
    and whose law they would not obey?
25 So he poured on him the heat of his anger
    and the might of battle;
it set him on fire all around, (A)but he did not understand;
    it burned him up, (B)but he did not take it to heart.

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17 who made the world like a desert
    and overthrew its cities,
    (A)who did not let his prisoners go home?’

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

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26 For they (A)persecute him whom (B)you have struck down,
    and they recount the pain of (C)those you have wounded.

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(A)For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and (B)with the measure you use it will be measured to you.

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16 In the abundance of (A)your trade
    you were filled with violence in your midst, and you sinned;
so I cast you as a profane thing from (B)the mountain of God,
    and I destroyed you,[a] (C)O guardian cherub,
    from the midst of the stones of fire.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 28:16 Or banished you

21 ‘Say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: (A)Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the yearning of your soul, and (B)your sons and your daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.

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The Lord (A)has swallowed up (B)without mercy
    all the habitations of Jacob;
in his wrath (C)he has broken down
    the strongholds of the daughter of Judah;
he has brought (D)down to the ground (E)in dishonor
    the kingdom (F)and its rulers.

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28 Therefore (A)I will profane the princes of the sanctuary,
    and (B)deliver Jacob to utter destruction
    and Israel to reviling.

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16 (A)Their infants will be dashed in pieces
    before their eyes;
their houses will be plundered
    and their wives ravished.

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14 Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let us fall into the hand of the Lord, (A)for his mercy is great; but let me not fall into the hand of man.”

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