If Edom says, “We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins,” the Lord of hosts says, “They may build, but I will tear down, and they will be called ‘the wicked country,’ and ‘the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.’”

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14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom (A)by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath, and (B)they shall know my vengeance, declares the Lord God.

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(A)I will make you a perpetual desolation, and (B)your cities shall not be inhabited. Then (C)you will know that I am the Lord.

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21 (A)Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom,
    you who dwell in (B)the land of Uz;
but to you also (C)the cup shall pass;
    you shall become drunk and strip yourself bare.

22 (D)The punishment of your iniquity, O daughter of Zion, is accomplished;
    he will keep you in exile no longer;[a]
but (E)your iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he will punish;
    he will uncover your sins.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 4:22 Or he will not exile you again

The Lord's Day of Vengeance

63 Who is this who comes from (A)Edom,
    in crimsoned garments from (B)Bozrah,
he who is splendid in his apparel,
    (C)marching in the greatness of his strength?
“It is I, speaking in righteousness,
    mighty to save.”

Why is your (D)apparel red,
    and your garments like his (E)who treads in the winepress?

(F)“I have trodden the winepress alone,
    (G)and from the peoples no one was with me;
I trod them in my anger
    and trampled them in my wrath;
their lifeblood[a] spattered on my garments,
    and stained all my apparel.
(H)For the day of vengeance was in my heart,
    and my year of redemption[b] had come.
I looked, but (I)there was no one to help;
    I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold;
so my own arm brought me salvation,
    and my wrath upheld me.
I trampled down the peoples in my anger;
    (J)I made them drunk in my wrath,
    and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 63:3 Or their juice; also verse 6
  2. Isaiah 63:4 Or the year of my redeemed

10 Night and day (A)it shall not be quenched;
    (B)its smoke shall go up forever.
(C)From generation to generation it shall lie waste;
    none shall pass through it forever and ever.

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For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens;
    behold, it descends for judgment upon (A)Edom,
    upon the people (B)I have devoted to destruction.

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14 (A)But they shall swoop down on the shoulder of the Philistines in the west,
    and together they shall plunder (B)the people of the east.
They shall put out their hand (C)against (D)Edom and (E)Moab,
    and (F)the Ammonites shall obey them.

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and all the people will know,
    (A)Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria,
    who say in pride and in arrogance of heart:
10 “The bricks have fallen,
    but we will build with dressed stones;
the sycamores have been cut down,
    but we will put cedars in their place.”

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but Esau I have hated. (A)I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.”

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Pass over to (A)Calneh, and see,
    and from there go to (B)Hamath the great;
    then go down to (C)Gath of the Philistines.
(D)Are you better than these kingdoms?
    Or is their territory greater than your territory,

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10 (A)You shall fall by the sword. I will judge you at the border of Israel, (B)and you shall know that I am the Lord.

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37 (A)Who has spoken and it came to pass,
    unless the Lord has commanded it?

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17 (A)There is hope for your future,
declares the Lord,
    and your children shall come back to their own country.

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15 Shall (A)the axe boast over him who hews with it,
    or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it?
As if a rod should wield him who lifts it,
    or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!
16 Therefore the Lord God of hosts
    will send wasting sickness among his (B)stout warriors,
and under his glory (C)a burning will be kindled,
    like the burning of fire.

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Nothing remains but to crouch among the prisoners
    or fall among the slain.
(A)For all this his anger has not turned away,
    and his hand is stretched out still.

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30 (A)No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel
    can avail against the Lord.

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Remember, O Lord, against the (A)Edomites
    (B)the day of Jerusalem,
how they said, (C)“Lay it bare, lay it bare,
    down to its foundations!”

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Unless the Lord Builds the House

A Song of (A)Ascents. Of Solomon.

127 Unless the Lord builds the house,
    those who build it labor in vain.
Unless the Lord (B)watches over the city,
    the watchman stays awake in vain.

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29 When he is quiet, who can condemn?
    When he hides his face, who can behold him,
    whether it be a nation or a man?—

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14 If he tears down, none can rebuild;
    if he (A)shuts a man in, none can open.

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He is (A)wise in heart and mighty in strength
    —who has (B)hardened himself against him, and succeeded?—

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Boasting About Tomorrow

13 Come now, you who say, (A)“Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For (B)you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15 Instead you ought to say, (C)“If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. (D)All such boasting is evil.

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30 (A)Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.

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