¹⁰“Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you and you will be cut off forever. ¹¹On the day you stood nearby,^k on the day strangers took^l his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots over Jerusalem, you were also like one of them. ¹²But you should not have gloated^m over your brother’s day, on the day of his misfortune, and you should not have rejoiced over the peopleⁿ of Judah on the day of their perishing, and you should not have opened your mouth wide on the day of distress. ¹³You should not have entered the gate of my people on the day of their disaster. You also should not have gloated over his misery on the day of his disaster, and you should not have stretched out your hands to his wealth on the day of his disaster. ¹⁴And you should not have stood at the crossroads to cut off his fugitives and you should not have handed over his survivors on the day of distress.

Future Judgment of the Nations

¹⁵“For the day of Yahweh is near against all the nations! Just as you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return on your own head. ¹⁶For just as you have drunk on my holy mountain,^o all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and they will slurp, and they will be as if they had never been.

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Footnotes

kLiterally “the day of your standing nearby”
lLiterally “the day of the taking captive by strangers”
mThe Hebrew expression “to look upon” often has the sense of “to feast the eyes upon” or “to gloat over”
nLiterally “son”
oLiterally “the mountain of my holiness”