3 The apride of your heart has deceived you, You who dwell in the clefts of the rock, Whose habitation is high; bYou who say in your heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’
4aThough you ascend as high as the eagle, And though you bset your nest among the stars, From there I will bring you down,” says the Lord.
5 “If athieves had come to you, If robbers by night— Oh, how you will be cut off!— Would they not have stolen till they had enough? If grape-gatherers had come to you, bWould they not have left some gleanings?
6 “Oh, how Esau shall be searched out! How his hidden treasures shall be sought after!
7 All the men in your confederacy Shall force you to the border; aThe men at peace with you Shall deceive you and prevail against you. Thosewhoeat your bread shall lay a1 trap for you. bNo1 one is aware of it.
8 “Willa I not in that day,” says the Lord, “Even destroy the wise men from Edom, And understanding from the mountains of Esau?
9 Then your amighty men, O bTeman, shall be dismayed, To the end that everyone from the mountains of Esau May be cut off by slaughter.
Edom Mistreated His Brother
10 “For aviolence against your brother Jacob, Shame shall cover you, And byou shall be cut off forever.
11 In the day that you astood on the other side— In the day that strangers carried captive his forces, When foreigners entered his gates And bcast lots for Jerusalem— Even you were as one of them.
12 “But you should not have agazed on the day of your brother 1In the day of his captivity; Nor should you have brejoiced over the children of Judah In the day of their destruction; Nor should you have spoken proudly In the day of distress.
The spoliation which thou shalt suffer shall not be such as that which thieves cause, bad as that is, for these when they have seized enough, or all they can get in a hurry, leave the rest—nor such as grape-gatherers cause in a vineyard, for they, when they have gathered most of the grapes, leave gleanings behind—but it shall be utter, so as to leave thee nothing. The exclamation, "How art thou cut off!" bursting in amidst the words of the image, marks strongly excited feeling. The contrast between Edom where no gleanings shall be left, and Israel where at the worst a gleaning is left (Isaiah 17:6; Isaiah 24:13), is striking.
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