11 Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; And let your widows trust in Me.”
12 For thus says the Lord: “Behold, athose whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunk. And are you the one who will altogether go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you shall surely drink ofit.
13 For aI have sworn by Myself,” says the Lord, “that bBozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a1 waste, and a curse. And all its cities shall be perpetual2 wastes.”
14aI have heard a message from the Lord, And an ambassador has been sent to the nations: “Gather together, come against her, And rise up to battle!
15 “For indeed, I will make you small among nations, Despised among men.
16 Your fierceness has deceived you, The apride of your heart, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, Who hold the height of the hill! bThough you make your cnest as high as the eagle, dI will bring you down from there,” says the Lord.
17 “Edom also shall be an astonishment; aEveryone who goes by it will be astonished And will hiss at all its plagues.
18aAs in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah And their neighbors,” says the Lord, “No one shall remain there, Nor shall a son of man dwell in it.
19 “Behold,a he shall come up like a lion from bthe floodplain of the Jordan Against the dwelling place of the strong; But I will suddenly make him run away from her. And who is a chosen manthat I may appoint over her? For cwho is like Me? Who will arraign Me? And dwho is that shepherd Who will withstand Me?”
20aTherefore 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 shall1 draw them out; Surely He shall make their dwelling places desolate with them.
21aThe earth shakes at the noise of their fall; At the cry its noise is heard at the Red Sea.
22 Behold, aHe 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 be Like the heart of a woman in birth pangs.
Judgment on Damascus
23aAgainst Damascus. b“Hamath and Arpad are shamed, For they have heard bad news. They are fainthearted; cThereis1 trouble on the sea; It cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus has grown feeble; She turns to flee, And fear has seized her. aAnguish and sorrows have taken her like a woman in1 labor.
25 Why is athe city of praise not deserted, the city of My joy?
26aTherefore 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.
27 “Ia will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, And it shall consume the palaces of Ben-Hadad.”
Judgment on Kedar and Hazor
28aAgainst Kedar and against the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon shall strike. Thus says the Lord: “Arise, go up to Kedar, And devastate bthe men of the East!
29 Their atents and their flocks they shall take away. They shall take for themselves their curtains, All their vessels and their camels; And they shall cry out to them, b‘Fear is on every side!’
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