The Lord Yahweh says this concerning Edom: We have heard a report from Yahweh and an ambassador has been sent among the nations, saying, "Rise up! Let us rise up against her for battle!"
\v 5 If thieves came to you, if robbers came by night (how are you cut off!), would they not only steal enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave the gleanings?
\v 6 How Esau has been ransacked, and his hidden treasures sought out!
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\v 7 All the men of your alliance will send you on your way to the border. The men who were at peace with you have
\v 15 For the day of Yahweh is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your deeds will return on your own head.
\v 16 For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. They will drink and swallow and it will be as though they had never existed.
\v 17 But in Mount Zion there will be those that escape and it will be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
\v 18 The house of Jacob will be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau will be stubble, and they will burn them, and consume them. There will be no survivors to the house of Esau, for Yahweh has spoken it."
\v 19 And those from the Negev will possess the mount of Esau, and those of the Shephelah will possess the land of the Philistines; and they will possess the land of Ephraim, and the land of Samaria; and Benjamin will
\v 19 And those from the Negev will possess the mount of Esau and those of the Shepelah will possess the land of the Philistines. They will possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria; and Benjamin will possess Gilead.
\v 20 The exiles of this host of the people of Israel will possess the land of Canaan as far as Zarephath. The exiles of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev.