8. Flee! Turn back!Dwell in the depths, inhabitants of Dedan;for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him when I visit him.
9. If grape gatherers came to you,would they not leave some gleaning grapes?If thieves came by night,wouldn’t they steal until they had enough?
10. But I have made Esau bare,I have uncovered his secret places,and he will not be able to hide himself.His offspring is destroyed,with his brothers and his neighbors;and he is no more.
11. Leave your fatherless children.I will preserve them alive.Let your widows trust in me.”
12. For the Lord says: “Behold, they to whom it didn’t pertain to drink of the cup will certainly drink; and are you he who will altogether go unpunished? You won’t go unpunished, but you will surely drink.
13. For I have sworn by myself,” says the Lord, “that Bozrah will become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. All its cities will be perpetual wastes.”
14. I have heard news from the Lord,and an ambassador is sent among the nations,saying, “Gather yourselves together!Come against her!Rise up to the battle!”
15. “For, behold, I have made you small among the nations,and despised among men.
16. As for your terror,the pride of your heart has deceived you,O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock,who hold the height of the hill,though you should make your nest as high as the eagle,I will bring you down from there,” says the Lord.
17. “Edom will become an astonishment.Everyone who passes by it will be astonished,and will hiss at all its plagues.