14  They lift up their voices, they sing for joy;

over the majesty of the Lord they shout from the west.¹

15  Therefore in the east² give glory to the Lord;

in the coastlands of the sea, ^vgive glory to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

16  From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise,

of glory to the Righteous One.

But I say, “I waste away,

I waste away. Woe is me!

For ^wthe traitors have betrayed,

with betrayal the traitors have betrayed.”

17  ^xTerror and the pit and the snare³

are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth!

18  He who flees at the sound of the terror

shall fall into the pit,

and he who climbs out of the pit

shall be caught in the snare.

For the ^ywindows of heaven are opened,

and the foundations of the earth tremble.

19  The earth is utterly broken,

the earth is split apart,

the earth is violently shaken.

20  The earth staggers like a drunken man;

it sways like a hut;

its transgression lies heavy upon it,

and it falls, and will not rise again.

21  On that day the Lord will punish

the ^zhost of heaven, in heaven,

and the kings of the earth, on the earth.

22  They will be gathered together

as prisoners in a pit;

they will be shut up in a prison,

and after many days they will be punished.

23  Then the ^amoon will be confounded

and the sun ashamed,

for the Lord of hosts ^breigns

on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem,

and his glory will be before his elders.

1  O Lord, ^cyou are my God;

I will exalt you; I will praise your name,

for you have done ^dwonderful things,

plans formed of old, faithful and sure.

2  For you have made the city a heap,

the fortified city a ruin;

the foreigners’ palace is a city no more;

it will never be rebuilt.

3  Therefore strong peoples will glorify you;

cities of ruthless nations will fear you.

4  For you have been a stronghold to the poor,

a stronghold to the needy in his distress,

^ea shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat;

for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,

5  like heat in a dry place.

You subdue the noise of the foreigners;

as heat by the shade of a cloud,

so the song of the ruthless is put down.

6  On this ^fmountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples

a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine,

of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.

7  And he will swallow up on this mountain

the covering that is cast over all peoples,

the veil that is spread over all nations.

8  ^gHe will swallow up death forever;

and the Lord God will ^hwipe away tears from all faces,

and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth,

for the Lord has spoken.

9  It will be said on that day,

“Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us.

This is the Lord; we have waited for him;

let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”

10  For the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain,

and Moab shall be trampled down in his place,

as straw is trampled down in a dunghill.⁴

11  And he will spread out his hands in the midst of it

as a swimmer spreads his hands out to swim,

but the Lord will lay low his pompous pride together with the skill⁵ of his hands.

12  And the high fortifications of his walls he will bring down,

ⁱlay low, and cast to the ground, to the dust.

Thus says the Lord God ^aconcerning Edom:

^bWe have heard a report from the Lord,

and a messenger has been sent among the nations:

“Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!”

2  Behold, I will make you small among the nations;

you shall be utterly despised.¹

3  The pride of your heart has deceived you,

you who live in the clefts of the rock,²

in your lofty dwelling,

who say in your heart,

“Who will bring me down to the ground?”

4  Though you soar aloft like the eagle,

though your nest is set among the stars,

from there I will bring you down,

declares the Lord.

5  ^cIf thieves came to you,

if plunderers came by night—

how you have been destroyed!—

would they not steal only enough for themselves?

If grape gatherers came to you,

would they not leave gleanings?

6  How Esau has been pillaged,

his treasures sought out!

7  ^dAll your allies have driven you to your border;

those at peace with you have deceived you;

they have prevailed against you;

those who eat your bread³ have set a trap beneath you—

^eyou have⁴ no understanding.

8  Will I not on that day, declares the Lord,

destroy the wise men out of Edom,

and understanding out of Mount Esau?

9  And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman,

so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.

10  ^fBecause of the violence done to your ^gbrother Jacob,

shame shall cover you,

and you shall be cut off forever.

11  ^hOn the day that you stood aloof,

ⁱon the day that strangers carried off his wealth

and foreigners entered his gates

and ^jcast lots for Jerusalem,

you were like one of them.

12  But do not gloat over the day of your brother

in the day of his misfortune;

do not ^krejoice over the people of Judah

in the day of their ruin;

do not boast⁵

in the day of distress.

13  Do not enter the gate of my people

in the day of their calamity;

do not gloat over his disaster

in the day of his calamity;

do not loot his wealth

in the day of his calamity.

14  Do not stand at the crossroads

to cut off his fugitives;

do not hand over his survivors

in the day of distress.

15  For the ^lday of the Lord is near upon all the nations.

^mAs you have done, it shall be done to you;

your deeds shall return on your own head.

16  For as you have drunk on my holy mountain,

so all the nations shall drink continually;

they shall drink and swallow,

and shall be as though they had never been.

17  But ⁿin Mount Zion there shall be those who escape,

and it shall be holy,

and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.

18  ^oThe house of Jacob shall be a fire,

and 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 for the house of Esau,

for the Lord has spoken.

19  Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau,

and those of the Shephelah shall possess the land of the Philistines;

they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria,

and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.

20  The exiles of this host of the people of Israel

shall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath,

and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad

shall possess the cities of the Negeb.

21  Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion

to rule Mount Esau,

and ^pthe kingdom shall be the Lord’s.