⁸On that day,” declaresⁱ Yahweh, “will I not destroy the wise men from Edom, and understanding from the mountain of Esau? ⁹And your warriors will be shattered, O Teman, so that everyone^j from the mountain of Esau will be cut off because of the slaughter!

Edom’s Treachery against Judah

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.

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Footnotes

iLiterally “a declaration of”
jLiterally “each”
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”