15. “For indeed, I will make you small among nations,Despised among men.
16. Your fierceness has deceived you,The pride of your heart,O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock,Who hold the height of the hill!Though you make your nest as high as the eagle,I will bring you down from there,” says the Lord.
17. “Edom also shall be an astonishment;Everyone who goes by it will be astonishedAnd will hiss at all its plagues.
18. As in the overthrow of Sodom and GomorrahAnd their neighbors,” says the Lord,“No one shall remain there,Nor shall a son of man dwell in it.
19. “Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the floodplain of the JordanAgainst the dwelling place of the strong;But I will suddenly make him run away from her.And who is a chosen man that I may appoint over her?For who is like Me?Who will arraign Me?And who is that shepherdWho will withstand Me?”
20. Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord that He has taken against Edom,And His purposes that He has proposed against the inhabitants of Teman:Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out;Surely He shall make their dwelling places desolate with them.
21. The earth shakes at the noise of their fall;At the cry its noise is heard at the Red Sea.
22. Behold, He shall come up and fly like the eagle,And spread His wings over Bozrah;The heart of the mighty men of Edom in that day shall beLike the heart of a woman in birth pangs.
23. Against Damascus.“Hamath and Arpad are shamed,For they have heard bad news.They are fainthearted;There is trouble on the sea;It cannot be quiet.
24. Damascus has grown feeble;She turns to flee,And fear has seized her.Anguish and sorrows have taken her like a woman in labor.
25. Why is the city of praise not deserted, the city of My joy?
26. Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets,And all the men of war shall be cut off in that day,” says the Lord of hosts.