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.

2  ^bHear this, you elders;

give ear, all inhabitants of the land!

^cHas such a thing happened in your days,

or in the days of your fathers?

3  ^dTell your children of it,

and let your children tell their children,

and their children to another generation.

4  ^eWhat the cutting locust left,

the swarming locust has eaten.

What the swarming locust left,

the hopping locust has eaten,

and what the hopping locust left,

the destroying locust has eaten.

5  Awake, you drunkards, and weep,

and wail, all you drinkers of wine,

because of the sweet wine,

for it is cut off from your mouth.

6  For a ^fnation has come up against my land,

powerful and beyond number;

^gits teeth are lions’ teeth,

and it has the fangs of a lioness.

7  It has laid waste my vine

and splintered my fig tree;

it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down;

their branches are made white.

8  Lament like a virgin¹ wearing sackcloth

for the bridegroom of her youth.

9  The ^hgrain offering and the drink offering are cut off

from the house of the Lord.

ⁱThe priests mourn,

the ministers of the Lord.

10  The fields are destroyed,

^jthe ground mourns,

because the grain is destroyed,

the wine dries up,

the oil languishes.

11  ^kBe ashamed,² O tillers of the soil;

wail, O vinedressers,

for the wheat and the barley,

because the harvest of the field has perished.

12  The vine dries up;

the fig tree languishes.

Pomegranate, palm, and apple,

all the trees of the field are dried up,

and gladness dries up

from the children of man.

13  ^lPut on sackcloth and lament, O priests;

wail, O ministers of the altar.

Go in, pass the night in sackcloth,

O ministers of my God!

Because grain offering and drink offering

are withheld from the house of your God.

14  ^mConsecrate a fast;

call a solemn assembly.

Gather the elders

and all the inhabitants of the land

to the house of the Lord your God,

and cry out to the Lord.

15  Alas for the day!

ⁿFor the ^oday of the Lord is near,

and as destruction from the Almighty³ it comes.

16  Is not the food cut off

before our eyes,

joy and gladness

from the house of our God?

17  The seed shrivels under the clods;⁴

the storehouses are desolate;

the granaries are torn down

because the grain has dried up.

18  How the beasts groan!

The herds of cattle are perplexed

because there is no pasture for them;

even the flocks of sheep suffer.⁵

19  To you, O Lord, I call.

For fire has devoured

the ^ppastures of the wilderness,

and flame has burned

all the trees of the field.

20  Even the beasts of the field pant for you

because the water brooks are dried up,

and fire has devoured

the pastures of the wilderness.