20. Therefore, listen to the strategythe Lord devised for Edom;The plans he has drawn upagainst the inhabitants of Teman:They shall be dragged away, even the smallest of the flock;their pasture shall be aghast because of them.
21. With the din of their collapse the earth quakes,to the Red Sea the outcry is heard!
22. Look! like an eagle he soars aloft,and spreads his wings over Bozrah;On that day the hearts of Edom’s warriors becomelike the heart of a woman in labor.
23. Concerning Damascus.Hamath and Arpad are shamed,for they have heard bad news;Anxious, they surge like the seawhich cannot calm down.
24. Damascus loses heart, turns to flee;panic has seized it.Distress and pangs take hold,like the pain of a woman in labor.
25. How can the glorious city be abandoned,the town of joy!
26. But now its young men shall fall in its squares,all the warriors destroyed on that day—oracle of the Lord of hosts.
27. I will set fire to the wall of Damascus;it shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.
28. About Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, defeated.Thus says the Lord:Rise up, attack Kedar,destroy the people from the east.
29. Their tents and flocks shall be taken away,their tent curtains and all their goods;Their camels they carry off,they shout over them, “Terror on every side!”
30. Flee! wander about, hide deep for lodging,inhabitants of Hazor—oracle of the Lord;For Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, has devised a strategy against you,drawn up a plan against you,