4. Why do you boast in the valleys,Your flowing valley, O backsliding daughter?Who trusted in her treasures, saying,‘Who will come against me?’
5. Behold, I will bring fear upon you,”Says the Lord God of hosts,“From all those who are around you;You shall be driven out, everyone headlong,And no one will gather those who wander off.
6. But afterward I will bring backThe captives of the people of Ammon,” says the Lord.
7. Against Edom.Thus says the Lord of hosts:“Is wisdom no more in Teman?Has counsel perished from the prudent?Has their wisdom vanished?
8. Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan!For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him,The time that I will punish him.