> in that day, declares the lord, i will destroy the wise men of edom, those of understanding hiding in the mountains of esau will not be spared. > and esau's mighty men shall be dismayed and terrified, and everyone in esaus mountains will be cut down in the slaughter. > because of the violence against your brother jacob, you will be covered with shame; you will be destroyed forever. > on the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for jerusalem, you were like one of them. > you edomites chose to gloat over your brother in the day of his misfortune, to rejoice over the people of jacob in the day of their destruction, and would boast much in the day of their trouble. > you edomites chose to march through the gates of my people in the day of their disaster, to gloat over them in their calamity in the day of their disaster, to seize their wealth in the day of their disaster. > you edomites chose to wait at the crossroads to cut down their fugitives, hand over their survivors in the days of their trouble. > the day of the lord is near for all nations. > as you have done, it will be done to you; your deeds will return upon your own head. > just as you drank on my holy hill, so all the nations will drink continually; they will drink and drink and be as if they had never been. > but on mount zion will be deliverance; it will be holy, and jacob will possess his inheritance. > jacob will be a fire and joseph a flame; esau will be stubble, and the house of esau will devour themselves. > there will be no survivors of the house of esau. > the lord has spoken.
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