We have heard a message from the Lord:
    An envoy^(E) was sent to the nations to say,
“Rise, let us go against her for battle”^(F)—

² “See, I will make you small^(G) among the nations;
    you will be utterly despised.
³ The pride^(H) of your heart has deceived you,
    you who live in the clefts of the rocks^[a](I)
    and make your home on the heights,
you who say to yourself,
    ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’^(J)
4 Though you soar like the eagle
    and make your nest^(K) among the stars,
    from there I will bring you down,”^(L)
declares the Lord.^(M)

¹⁵ “The day of the Lord is near^(A)
    for all nations.
As you have done, it will be done to you;
    your deeds^(B) will return upon your own head.
¹⁶ Just as you drank^(C) on my holy hill,^(D)
    so all the nations will drink^(E) continually;
they will drink and drink
    and be as if they had never been.^(F)
17 But on Mount Zion will be deliverance;^(G)
    it will be holy,^(H)
    and Jacob will possess his inheritance.^(I)
18 Jacob will be a fire
    and Joseph a flame;
Esau will be stubble,
    and they will set him on fire^(J) and destroy^(K) him.
There will be no survivors^(L)
    from Esau.”
The Lord has spoken.

¹⁹ People from the Negev will occupy
    the mountains of Esau,
and people from the foothills will possess
    the land of the Philistines.^(M)
They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria,^(N)
    and Benjamin^(O) will possess Gilead.
²⁰ This company of Israelite exiles who are in Canaan
    will possess the land as far as Zarephath;^(P)
the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
    will possess the towns of the Negev.^(Q)
21 Deliverers^(R) will go up on^[a] Mount Zion
    to govern the mountains of Esau.
    And the kingdom will be the Lord’s.^(S)