6. "O how Esau will be ransacked, And his hidden treasures searched out!
7. "All the men allied with you Will send you forth to the border, And the men at peace with you Will deceive you and overpower you. They who eat your bread Will set an ambush for you. (There is no understanding in him.)
8. "Will I not on that day," declares the Lord, "Destroy wise men from Edom And understanding from the mountain of Esau?
9. "Then your mighty men will be dismayed, O Teman, So that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.
10. "Because of violence to your brother Jacob, You will be covered with shame, And you will be cut off forever.
11. "On the day that you stood aloof, On the day that strangers carried off his wealth, And foreigners entered his gate And cast lots for Jerusalem- You too were as one of them.
12. "Do not gloat over your brother's day, The day of his misfortune. And do not rejoice over the sons of Judah In the day of their destruction; Yes, do not boast In the day of their distress.
13. "Do not enter the gate of My people In the day of their disaster. Yes, you, do not gloat over their calamity In the day of their disaster. And do not loot their wealth In the day of their disaster.
14. "Do not stand at the fork of the road To cut down their fugitives; And do not imprison their survivors In the day of their distress.
15. "For the day of the Lord draws near on all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you. Your dealings will return on your own head.
16. "Because just as you drank on My holy mountain, All the nations will drink continually. They will drink and swallow And become as if they had never existed.
17. "But on Mount Zion there will be those who escape, And it will be holy. And the house of Jacob will possess their possessions.
18. "Then the house of Jacob will be a fire And the house of Joseph a flame; But the house of Esau will be as stubble. And they will set them on fire and consume them, So that there will be no survivor of the house of Esau," For the Lord has spoken.