^(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.

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.