7. Your allies can't be trusted.They will force you outof your own country.Your best friendswill trick and trap you,even before you know it.
8. Edom, when this happens,I, the Lord, will destroyall your marvellous wisdom.
9. Warriors from the city of Temanwill be terrified,and you descendants of Esauwill be wiped out.
10. You were cruel to your relatives,the descendants of Jacob.Now you will be destroyed,disgraced for ever.
11. You stood there and watchedas foreigners entered Jerusalemand took what they wanted.In fact, you were no betterthan those foreigners.
12. Why did you celebratewhen such a dreadful disasterstruck your relatives?Why were you so pleasedwhen everyone in Judahwas suffering?
13. They are my people,and you were cruel to them.You went through their towns,sneering and stealingwhatever was left.
14. In their time of torment,you ambushed refugeesand handed them overto their attackers.
15. The day is comingwhen I, the Lord,will judge the nations.And, Edom, you will pay in fullfor what you have done.
16. I forced the people of Judahto drink the wine of my angeron my sacred mountain.Soon the neighbouring nationsmust drink their fill—then vanish without a trace.
17. The Lord's people who escapewill go to Mount Zion,and it will be holy.Then Jacob's descendantswill capture the land of thosewho took their land.
18. Israel will be a fire,and Edom will be strawgoing up in flames.The Lord has spoken!
19. The people of Israelwho live in the Southern Desertwill take the land of Edom.Those who live in the hillswill capture Philistia,Ephraim, and Samaria.And the tribe of Benjaminwill conquer Gilead.