Isaiah 63:1-6

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The Lord's Day of Vengeance

63 Who is this who comes from ^(A)Edom,
    in crimsoned garments from ^(B)Bozrah,
he who is splendid in his apparel,
    ^(C)marching in the greatness of his strength?
“It is I, speaking in righteousness,
    mighty to save.”

²Why is your ^(D)apparel red,
and your garments like his ^(E)who treads in the winepress?

³^(F)“I have trodden the winepress alone,
    ^(G)and from the peoples no one was with me;
I trod them in my anger
    and trampled them in my wrath;
their lifeblood^[a] spattered on my garments,
    and stained all my apparel.
⁴^(H)For the day of vengeance was in my heart,
    and my year of redemption^[b] had come.
⁵I looked, but ^(I)there was no one to help;
    I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold;
so my own arm brought me salvation,
    and my wrath upheld me.
⁶I trampled down the peoples in my anger;
    ^(J)I made them drunk in my wrath,
    and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”

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Footnotes

Isaiah 63:3 Or their juice; also verse 6
Isaiah 63:4 Or the year of my redeemed

Jeremiah 49:7-22

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Judgment on Edom

⁷Concerning ^(A)Edom.

Thus says the Lord of hosts:

^(B)“Is wisdom no more in ^(C)Teman?
    ^(D)Has counsel perished from the prudent?
    ^(E)Has their wisdom vanished?
⁸^(F)Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths,
    O inhabitants of ^(G)Dedan!
For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him,
    ^(H)the time when I punish him.
⁹^(I)If grape gatherers came to you,
    would they not leave ^(J)gleanings?
^(K)If thieves came by night,
    would they not destroy only enough for themselves?
¹⁰^(L)But I have stripped Esau bare;
    ^(M)I have uncovered his hiding places,
    and he is not able to conceal himself.
His children are destroyed, and his brothers,
    and his neighbors; and ^(N)he is no more.
¹¹^(O)Leave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive;
    ^(P)and let your widows trust in me.”

¹²For thus says the Lord: ^(Q)“If those who did not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, ^(R)will you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you must drink. ¹³^(S)For I have sworn by myself, declares the Lord, that ^(T)Bozrah shall become ^(U)a horror, a taunt, a waste, and a curse, and all her cities shall be perpetual wastes.”

¹⁴^(V)I have heard a message from the Lord,
    and an envoy has been sent among the nations:
^(W)“Gather yourselves together and come against her,
    and rise up for battle!
¹⁵For behold, I will make you small among the nations,
    despised among mankind.
¹⁶The horror you inspire has deceived you,
    and the pride of your heart,
you who live in the clefts of the rock,^[a]
    who hold the height of the hill.
Though you ^(X)make your nest as high as the eagle's,
    I will bring you down from there,
declares the Lord.

¹⁷^(Y)“Edom shall become a horror. ^(Z)Everyone who passes by it will be horrified ^(AA)and will hiss because of all its disasters. ¹⁸^(AB)As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their ^(AC)neighboring cities were overthrown, says the Lord, ^(AD)no man shall dwell there, ^(AE)no man shall sojourn in her. ¹⁹^(AF)Behold, ^(AG)like a lion coming up from ^(AH)the jungle of the Jordan against a perennial pasture, I will suddenly make him^[b] run away from her. And I will appoint over her whomever I choose. ^(AI)For who is like me? ^(AJ)Who will summon me? ^(AK)What shepherd can stand before me? ²⁰Therefore hear the plan that the Lord has made against ^(AL)Edom and the purposes that he has formed against the inhabitants of ^(AM)Teman: ^(AN)Even the little ones of the flock shall be dragged away. Surely their fold shall be appalled at their fate. ²¹At the sound of their fall ^(AO)the earth shall tremble; the sound of their cry shall be heard at the Red Sea. ²²Behold, ^(AP)one shall mount up and fly swiftly like an eagle and spread his wings against ^(AQ)Bozrah, and the heart of the warriors of Edom shall be in that day like the heart ^(AR)of a woman in her birth pains.”

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Footnotes

Jeremiah 49:16 Or of Sela
Jeremiah 49:19 Septuagint, Syriac them

Obadiah

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¹The vision of Obadiah.

Edom Will Be Humbled

Thus says the Lord God ^(A)concerning Edom:
^(B)We have heard a report from the Lord,
    and a messenger has been sent among the nations:
“Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!”
²Behold, I will make you small among the nations;
    you shall be utterly despised.^[a]
³^(C)The pride of your heart has deceived you,
    you who live in the clefts of the rock,^[b]
    in your lofty dwelling,
^(D)who say in your heart,
    “Who will bring me down to the ground?”
⁴Though you soar aloft like the eagle,
    though your nest is set among the stars,
    from there I will bring you down,
declares the Lord.

⁵If ^(E)thieves came to you,
    if plunderers came by night—
    how you have been destroyed!—
    would they not steal only enough for themselves?
If ^(F)grape gatherers came to you,
    would they not leave gleanings?
⁶^(G)How Esau has been pillaged,
    his treasures sought out!
⁷All your allies have driven you to your border;
    those at peace with you have deceived you;
they have prevailed against you;
    ^(H)those who eat your bread^[c] have set a trap beneath you—
    ^(I)you have^[d] no understanding.

⁸^(J)Will I not on that day, declares the Lord,
    destroy the wise men out of Edom,
    and understanding out of ^(K)Mount Esau?
⁹And your mighty men shall be dismayed, ^(L)O Teman,
    so that every man from ^(M)Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.

Edom's Violence Against Jacob

¹⁰^(N)Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob,
    shame shall cover you,
    ^(O)and you shall be cut off forever.
¹¹^(P)On the day that you stood aloof,
    ^(Q)on the day that strangers carried off his wealth
and foreigners entered his gates
    ^(R)and cast lots for Jerusalem,
    you were like one of them.
¹²^(S)But do not gloat over the day of your brother
    in the day of his misfortune;
^(T)do not rejoice over the people of Judah
    in the day of their ruin;
^(U)do not boast^[e]
    in the day of distress.
¹³^(V)Do not enter the gate of my people
    in the day of their calamity;
^(W)do not gloat over his disaster
    in the day of his calamity;
^(X)do not loot his wealth
    in the day of his calamity.
¹⁴^(Y)Do not stand at the crossroads
    to cut off his fugitives;
do not hand over his survivors
    in the day of distress.

The Day of the Lord Is Near

¹⁵For ^(Z)the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations.
^(AA)As you have done, it shall be done to you;
    your deeds shall return on your own head.
¹⁶^(AB)For as you have drunk on ^(AC)my holy mountain,
    so all the nations shall drink continually;
they shall drink and swallow,
    and shall be as though they had never been.
¹⁷^(AD)But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape,
    and it shall be holy,
^(AE)and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
¹⁸^(AF)The house of Jacob shall be a fire,
    and the house of Joseph a flame,
    and the house of Esau ^(AG)stubble;
they shall burn them and consume them,
    ^(AH)and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau,
for the Lord has spoken.

The Kingdom of the Lord

¹⁹Those of ^(AI)the Negeb ^(AJ)shall possess ^(AK)Mount Esau,
    and those of the Shephelah shall possess ^(AL)the land of the Philistines;
they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of ^(AM)Samaria,
    and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
²⁰The exiles of this host of the people of Israel
    shall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as ^(AN)Zarephath,
and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
    shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
²¹^(AO)Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion
    to rule ^(AP)Mount Esau,
    and ^(AQ)the kingdom shall be the Lord's.

Footnotes

Obadiah 1:2 Or Behold, I have made you small among the nations; you are utterly despised
Obadiah 1:3 Or of Sela
Obadiah 1:7 Hebrew lacks those who eat
Obadiah 1:7 Hebrew he has
Obadiah 1:12 Hebrew do not enlarge your mouth

Malachi 1:2-4

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The Lord's Love for Israel

²^(A)“I have loved you,” says the Lord. ^(B)But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau ^(C)Jacob's brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet ^(D)I have loved Jacob ³but Esau I have hated. ^(E)I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.” ⁴If Edom says, “We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins,” the Lord of hosts says, “They may build, but I will tear down, and they will be called ‘the wicked country,’ and ‘the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.’”