Prophesy Against Edom

¹² ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Because ^(A)Edom has acted against the house of Judah by taking vengeance and has incurred grievous guilt and avenged themselves upon them,” ¹³ therefore thus says Lord Yahweh, “I will also ^(B)stretch out My hand against Edom and ^(C)cut off man and beast from it. And I will lay it waste; from ^(D)Teman even to ^(E)Dedan they will fall by the sword. ^14 (F)I will lay My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel. Therefore, they will act in Edom ^(G)according to My anger and according to My wrath; thus they will know My vengeance,” declares Lord Yahweh.

Prophecy Against Mount Seir

35 Moreover, the word of Yahweh came to me saying, ² “Son of man, set your face against ^(A)Mount Seir and prophesy against it ³ and say to it, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh,

⁵ Because you have had everlasting ^(E)enmity and have ^[a]delivered the sons of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their disaster, at the time of the ^[b](F)punishment of the end, ⁶ therefore as I live,” declares Lord Yahweh, “I will ^[c]prepare you for ^(G)bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you; you surely have not hated bloodshed, so bloodshed will pursue you. ⁷ I will make Mount Seir a waste and a desolation, and I will cut off from it the one who passes through and returns. ⁸ I will ^(H)fill its mountains with its slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those slain by the sword will ^[d]fall. ⁹ I will make you an everlasting ^(I)desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

¹⁰ “Because you have ^(J)said, ‘These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we will possess ^[e]them,’ although ^(K)Yahweh was there, ¹¹ therefore as I live,” declares Lord Yahweh, “I will deal with you ^(L)according to your anger and according to your jealousy which you dealt with them because of your hatred against them; so I will ^(M)make Myself known among them when I judge you. ¹² Then you will know ^[f]that I, Yahweh, have heard all your ^[g]contempt which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel saying, ‘They are laid desolate; they are ^(N)given to us for food.’ ¹³ And you have ^(O)magnified yourselves with your mouth against Me and have multiplied your words against Me; ^(P)I have heard it.” ¹⁴ Thus says Lord Yahweh, “As all the ^(Q)earth delights, I will make you a desolation. ¹⁵ As you ^(R)delighted over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, ^(S)so I will do to you. You will be a ^(T)desolation, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”’

Edom Will Be Brought Down

¹ The vision of Obadiah.

Thus says Lord ^[a]Yahweh concerning ^(A)Edom—

² “I have ^(A)loved you,” says Yahweh. But you say, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares Yahweh. “Yet I ^(B)have loved Jacob; ³ but I have hated Esau, and I have ^(C)set his mountains to be a desolation and his inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness.” ⁴ Though Edom says, “We have been ^(D)demolished, but we will ^[a](E)return and build up the waste places”; thus says Yahweh of hosts, “They may ^(F)build, but I will pull down; and men will call them a ^[b]territory of wickedness, and the people ^[c]toward whom Yahweh is indignant ^(G)forever.” ⁵ And your eyes will see this, and you will say, “^(H)Yahweh ^[d]be magnified beyond the ^[e]territory of Israel!”