6  ^w“Woe to those who are at ease in Zion,

and to those who feel secure on ^xthe mountain of Samaria,

^ythe notable men of ^zthe first of the nations,

to whom the house of Israel comes!

2  Pass over to ^aCalneh, and see,

and from there go to ^bHamath the great;

then go down to ^cGath of the Philistines.

^dAre you better than these kingdoms?

Or is their territory greater than your territory,

3  ^eO you who put far away the day of disaster

^fand bring near the seat of violence?

4  “Woe to those ^gwho lie on ^hbeds of ivory

^gand stretch themselves out on their couches,

and eat lambs from the flock

ⁱand calves from the midst of the stall,

5  ^jwho sing idle songs to the sound of the harp

and like David ^jinvent for themselves instruments of music,

6  ^kwho drink wine in bowls

and ^lanoint themselves with the finest oils,

but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!

7  ^mTherefore they shall now be the first of those who go into exile,

and the revelry of those who stretch themselves out shall pass away.”

“I abhor ^othe pride of Jacob

and hate his strongholds,

^pand I will deliver up the city and all that is in it.”

11  For behold, the Lord commands,

and ^tthe great house shall be struck down into fragments,

and the little house into bits.

12  Do horses run on rocks?

Does one plow there¹ with oxen?

^uBut you have turned justice into ^vpoison

^uand the fruit of righteousness into wormwood²—

13  you who rejoice in Lo-debar,³

who say, ^w“Have we not by our own strength

captured Karnaim⁴ for ourselves?”

14  “For behold, ^xI will raise up against you a nation,

O house of Israel,” declares the Lord, the God of hosts;

“and they shall oppress you from ^yLebo-hamath

to the Brook of ^zthe Arabah.”

“O Lord God, please forgive!

^cHow can Jacob stand?

He is so small!”

3  ^dThe Lord relented concerning this:

“It shall not be,” said the Lord.

“O Lord God, please cease!

^cHow can Jacob stand?

He is so small!”

6  ^dThe Lord relented concerning this:

“This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.

“Behold, I am setting ^fa plumb line

in the midst of my people Israel;

^gI will never again pass by them;

9  ^hthe high places of Isaac shall be made desolate,

and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste,

and I will rise against ⁱthe house of Jeroboam with the sword.”

“‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword,

and ^mIsrael must go into exile

away from his land.’”

“You say, ⁿ‘Do not prophesy against Israel,

and ^wdo not preach against the house of ^xIsaac.’

“‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city,

and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword,

and your land ^zshall be divided up with a measuring line;

you yourself shall die in an unclean land,

and ^mIsrael shall surely go into exile away from its land.’”

^d“The end¹ has come upon my people Israel;

I will never again pass by them.

3  ^eThe songs of the temple^{2 f}shall become wailings³ in that day,”

declares the Lord God.

^g“So many dead bodies!”

“They are thrown everywhere!”

^h“Silence!”

4  Hear this, ⁱyou who trample on the needy

and bring the poor of the land to an end,

5  saying, “When will ^jthe new moon be over,

that we may sell grain?

And ^kthe Sabbath,

that we may offer wheat for sale,

that we may make ^lthe ephah small and the shekel⁴ great

and deal deceitfully with false balances,

6  that we may buy the poor for ^msilver

and the needy for a pair of sandals

and sell the chaff of the wheat?”

7  The Lord has sworn by ⁿthe pride of Jacob:

“Surely ^oI will never forget any of their deeds.

8  ^pShall not the land tremble on this account,

and everyone mourn who dwells in it,

^qand all of it rise like the Nile,

and be tossed about ^rand sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”

9  “And on that day,” declares the Lord God,

^s“I will make the sun go down at noon

and darken the earth in broad daylight.

10  ^tI will turn your feasts into mourning

and all your songs into lamentation;

^uI will bring sackcloth on every waist

^uand baldness on every head;

^vI will make it like the mourning for an only son

and the end of it like a bitter day.

11  “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God,

“when ^wI will send a famine on the land—

not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,

^xbut of hearing the words of the Lord.

12  ^xThey shall wander from sea to sea,

and from north to east;

they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord,

^ybut they shall not find it.

13  ^z“In that day the lovely virgins and the young men

shall ^afaint for thirst.

14  Those who swear by ^bthe Guilt of Samaria,

and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’

and, ‘As ^cthe Way of ^dBeersheba lives,’

they shall fall, and never rise again.”

^e“Strike the capitals until ^ethe thresholds ^fshake,

^gand shatter them on the heads of all the people;²

and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword;

^hnot one of them shall flee away;

not one of them shall escape.

2  ⁱ“If they dig into Sheol,

from there shall my hand take them;

ⁱif they climb up to heaven,

from there I will bring them down.

3  If they hide themselves on ^jthe top of Carmel,

from there I will search them out and take them;

^kand if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea,

there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.

4  ^lAnd if they go into captivity before their enemies,

there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them;

^mand I will fix my eyes upon them

for evil and not for good.”

5  The Lord God of hosts,

he who touches the earth and ⁿit melts,

and all who dwell in it mourn,

^oand all of it rises like the Nile,

^oand sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;

6  ^pwho builds his upper chambers in the heavens

and founds his vault upon the earth;

^qwho calls for the waters of the sea

and pours them out upon the surface of the earth—

^rthe Lord is his name.

7  “Are you not like ^sthe Cushites to me,

O people of Israel?” declares the Lord.

^t“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,

and ^uthe Philistines from ^vCaphtor and the Syrians from ^wKir?

8  Behold, ^xthe eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom,

and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground,

^yexcept that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”

declares the Lord.

9  “For behold, I will command,

^zand shake the house of Israel among all the nations

as one shakes with a sieve,

but no pebble shall fall to the earth.

10  All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,

who say, ^a‘Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.’

11  “In that day ^bI will raise up

the booth of David that is fallen

and repair its breaches,

and raise up its ruins

and rebuild it as in the days of old,

12  ^cthat they may possess the remnant of Edom

and ^dall the nations who are called by my name,”³

declares the Lord who does this.

13  “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord,

^e“when the plowman shall overtake the reaper

and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed;

^fthe mountains shall drip sweet wine,

and all the hills shall flow with it.

14  ^gI will restore the fortunes of my people Israel,

and ^hthey shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them;

ⁱthey shall plant vineyards and drink their wine,

and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.

15  ^jI will plant them on their land,

^kand they shall never again be uprooted

out of the land ^lthat I have given them,”

says the Lord your God.

Thus says the Lord God ^aconcerning Edom:

^bWe 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!”

2  Behold, I will make you small among the nations;

you shall be utterly despised.¹

3  ^cThe pride of your heart has deceived you,

you who live in the clefts of the rock,²

in your lofty dwelling,

^dwho say in your heart,

“Who will bring me down to the ground?”

4  Though you soar aloft like the eagle,

though your nest is set among the stars,

from there I will bring you down,

declares the Lord.

5  If ^ethieves came to you,

if plunderers came by night—

how you have been destroyed!—

would they not steal only enough for themselves?

If ^egrape gatherers came to you,

would they not leave gleanings?

6  ^fHow Esau has been pillaged,

his treasures sought out!

7  All your allies have driven you to your border;

those at peace with you have deceived you;

they have prevailed against you;

^gthose who eat your bread³ have set a trap beneath you—

^hyou have⁴ no understanding.

8  ⁱWill I not on that day, declares the Lord,

destroy the wise men out of Edom,

and understanding out of ^jMount Esau?

9  And your mighty men shall be dismayed, ^kO Teman,

so that every man from ^jMount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.

10  ^lBecause of the violence done to your brother Jacob,

shame shall cover you,

^mand you shall be cut off forever.

11  ⁿOn the day that you stood aloof,

^oon the day that strangers carried off his wealth

and foreigners entered his gates

^pand cast lots for Jerusalem,

you were like one of them.

12  ^qBut do not gloat over the day of your brother

in the day of his misfortune;

^rdo not rejoice over the people of Judah

in the day of their ruin;

^sdo not boast⁵

in the day of distress.

13  ^tDo not enter the gate of my people

in the day of their calamity;

^tdo not gloat over his disaster

in the day of his calamity;

^udo not loot his wealth

in the day of his calamity.

14  ^vDo not stand at the crossroads

to cut off his fugitives;

do not hand over his survivors

in the day of distress.

15  For ^wthe day of the Lord is near upon all the nations.

^xAs you have done, it shall be done to you;

your deeds shall return on your own head.

16  ^yFor as you have drunk on ^zmy holy mountain,

so all the nations shall drink continually;

they shall drink and swallow,

and shall be as though they had never been.

17  ^aBut in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape,

and it shall be holy,

^band the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.

18  ^cThe house of Jacob shall be a fire,

and the house of Joseph a flame,

and the house of Esau ^dstubble;

they shall burn them and consume them,

^eand there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau,

for the Lord has spoken.

19  Those of ^fthe Negeb ^bshall possess ^gMount Esau,

and those of the Shephelah shall possess ^hthe land of the Philistines;

they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of ⁱSamaria,

and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.

20  The exiles of this host of the people of Israel

shall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as ^jZarephath,

and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad

shall possess the cities of the Negeb.

21  ^kSaviors shall go up to Mount Zion

to rule ^gMount Esau,

and ^lthe kingdom shall be the Lord’s.