If thieves came to you,(A)
if marauders by night—
how ravaged you would be!—
wouldn’t they steal only what they wanted?
If grape harvesters came to you,
wouldn’t they leave a few grapes?(B)
How Esau will be pillaged,(C)
his hidden treasures searched out!(D)
Everyone who has a treaty with you(E)
will drive you to the border;
everyone at peace with you
will deceive and conquer you.
Those who eat your bread(F)
will set[a] a trap for you.
He will be unaware of it.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. 7 Some LXX mss, Sym, Tg, Vg; MT reads They will set your bread as

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