And your mighty men shall be dismayed, (A)O Teman,
    so that every man from (B)Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.

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Your warriors, Teman,(A) will be terrified,
    and everyone in Esau’s mountains
    will be cut down in the slaughter.

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12 So I will send a fire upon (A)Teman,
    and it shall devour the strongholds of (B)Bozrah.”

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12 I will send fire on Teman(A)
    that will consume the fortresses of Bozrah.(B)

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13 therefore thus says the Lord God, (A)I will stretch out my hand against Edom and cut off from it man and beast. And I will make it desolate; from (B)Teman even to (C)Dedan they shall fall by the sword.

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13 therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will stretch out my hand(A) against Edom and kill both man and beast.(B) I will lay it waste, and from Teman(C) to Dedan(D) they will fall by the sword.(E)

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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.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 63:3 Or their juice; also verse 6

God’s Day of Vengeance and Redemption

63 Who is this coming from Edom,(A)
    from Bozrah,(B) with his garments stained crimson?(C)
Who is this, robed in splendor,
    striding forward in the greatness of his strength?(D)

“It is I, proclaiming victory,
    mighty to save.”(E)

Why are your garments red,
    like those of one treading the winepress?(F)

“I have trodden the winepress(G) alone;
    from the nations no one was with me.
I trampled(H) them in my anger
    and trod them down in my wrath;(I)
their blood spattered my garments,(J)
    and I stained all my clothing.

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22 Behold, (A)one shall mount up and fly swiftly like an eagle and spread his wings against (B)Bozrah, and the heart of the warriors of Edom shall be in that day like the heart (C)of a woman in her birth pains.”

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22 Look! An eagle will soar and swoop(A) down,
    spreading its wings over Bozrah.(B)
In that day the hearts of Edom’s warriors(C)
    will be like the heart of a woman in labor.(D)

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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.
The Lord has a sword; it is sated with blood;
    it is gorged 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,
    a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
(D)Wild oxen shall (E)fall with them,
    and (F)young steers with (G)the mighty bulls.
Their land shall drink its fill of blood,
    and their soil shall be gorged with fat.

(H)For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
    a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

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My sword(A) has drunk its fill in the heavens;
    see, it descends in judgment on Edom,(B)
    the people I have totally destroyed.(C)
The sword(D) of the Lord is bathed in blood,
    it is covered with fat—
the blood of lambs and goats,
    fat from the kidneys of rams.
For the Lord has a sacrifice(E) in Bozrah(F)
    and a great slaughter(G) in the land of Edom.
And the wild oxen(H) will fall with them,
    the bull calves and the great bulls.(I)
Their land will be drenched with blood,(J)
    and the dust will be soaked with fat.

For the Lord has a day(K) of vengeance,(L)
    a year of retribution,(M) to uphold Zion’s cause.

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11 The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.

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20 Therefore hear the plan that the Lord has made against (A)Edom and the purposes that he has formed against the inhabitants of (B)Teman: (C)Even the little ones of the flock shall be dragged away. Surely their fold shall be appalled at their fate.

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20 Therefore, hear what the Lord has planned against Edom,(A)
    what he has purposed(B) against those who live in Teman:(C)
The young of the flock(D) will be dragged away;
    their pasture will be appalled at their fate.(E)

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Judgment on Edom

Concerning (A)Edom.

Thus says the Lord of hosts:

(B)“Is wisdom no more in (C)Teman?
    (D)Has counsel perished from the prudent?
    (E)Has their wisdom vanished?

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A Message About Edom(A)(B)

Concerning Edom:(C)

This is what the Lord Almighty says:

“Is there no longer wisdom in Teman?(D)
    Has counsel perished from the prudent?
    Has their wisdom decayed?

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Job's Three Friends

11 Now when Job's three (A)friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz (B)the Temanite, Bildad (C)the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to (D)show him sympathy and comfort him.

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11 When Job’s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite,(A) Bildad the Shuhite(B) and Zophar the Naamathite,(C) heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.(D)

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21 Deliverers(A) will go up on[a] Mount Zion
    to govern the mountains of Esau.
    And the kingdom will be the Lord’s.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Obadiah 1:21 Or from

16 and he who is stout of heart among the mighty
    shall flee away naked in that day,”
declares the Lord.

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16 Even the bravest warriors(A)
    will flee naked on that day,”
declares the Lord.

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36 A sword against the diviners,
    that they may become fools!
A sword against her (A)warriors,
    that they may be destroyed!
37 A sword against her horses and against her chariots,
    and against all (B)the foreign troops in her midst,
    that (C)they may become women!
(D)A sword against all her treasures,
    that they may be plundered!

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36 A sword against her false prophets!
    They will become fools.
A sword against her warriors!(A)
    They will be filled with terror.(B)
37 A sword against her horses and chariots(C)
    and all the foreigners in her ranks!
    They will become weaklings.(D)
A sword against her treasures!(E)
    They will be plundered.

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