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18 The house of Jacob shall be a fire,
    the house of Joseph a flame,
    and the house of Esau stubble;
they shall burn them and consume them,
    and there shall be no survivor of the house of Esau,
            for the Lord has spoken.(A)

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On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a blazing pot on a pile of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves, and they shall devour to the right and to the left all the surrounding peoples, while Jerusalem shall again be inhabited in its place, in Jerusalem.(A)

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17 The light of Israel will become a fire
    and his Holy One a flame,
and it will burn and devour
    his thorns and briers in one day.(A)

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And among the nations the remnant of Jacob,
    surrounded by many peoples,
shall be like a lion among the animals of the forest,
    like a young lion among the flocks of sheep,
which, when it goes through, treads down
    and tears in pieces, with no one to deliver.(A)

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19 say to them, “Thus says the Lord God: I am about to take the stick of Joseph (which is in the hand of Ephraim) and the tribes of Israel associated with it, and I will put the stick of Judah upon it[a] and make them one stick, in order that they may be one in my hand.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 37.19 Heb I will put them upon it

Foreign Invasion Predicted

24 Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble
    and as dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so their root will become rotten,
    and their blossom go up like dust,
for they have rejected the instruction of the Lord of hosts
    and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.(A)

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12 Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw—

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10 Like thorns they are entangled;
    like drunkards they are drunk;
    they are consumed like dry straw.(A)

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16 For as you have drunk on my holy mountain,
    all the nations shall drink continually;
they shall drink and gulp down[a]
    and shall be as though they had never been.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 16 Meaning of Heb uncertain

Your warriors shall be shattered, O Teman,
    so that everyone from Mount Esau will be cut off.(A)

Edom Mistreated His Brother

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

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who drink wine from bowls
    and anoint themselves with the finest oils
    but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!(A)

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15 Hate evil and love good,
    and establish justice in the gate;
it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts,
    will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.(A)

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As with the rumbling of chariots,
    they leap on the tops of the mountains,
like the crackling of a flame of fire
    devouring the stubble,
like a powerful army
    drawn up for battle.(A)

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16 Mortal, take a stick and write on it, “For Judah and the Israelites associated with it”; then take another stick and write on it, “For Joseph (the stick of Ephraim) and all the house of Israel associated with it”;(A)

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14 See, they are like stubble;
    the fire consumes them;
they cannot deliver themselves
    from the power of the flame.
No coal for warming oneself is this,
    no fire to sit before!(A)

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His rock shall pass away in terror,
    and his officers desert the standard in panic,”
says the Lord, whose fire is in Zion
    and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.(A)

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the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
    Moab and the Hagrites,(A)
Gebal and Ammon and Amalek,
    Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
Assyria also has joined them;
    they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. Selah

Do to them as you did to Midian,
    as to Sisera and Jabin at the Wadi Kishon,(B)
10 who were destroyed at En-dor,
    who became dung for the ground.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,
    all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,(C)
12 who said, “Let us take the pastures of God
    for our own possession.”(D)

13 O my God, make them like whirling dust,[a]
    like chaff before the wind.(E)
14 As fire consumes the forest,
    as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,(F)
15 so pursue them with your tempest
    and terrify them with your hurricane.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. 83.13 Or a tumbleweed

20 For your servant knows that I have sinned; therefore, see, I have come this day, the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.”(A)

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