“ Because of the violence you did to your close relatives in Israel, you will be filled with shame and destroyed forever.

“因你向兄弟雅各行强暴，羞愧必遮盖你，你也必永远断绝。

因你向兄弟雅各施暴，你必蒙羞，永被剪除。

因你向兄弟雅各施暴，你必蒙羞，永被剪除。

“因你曾残暴地对待同胞兄弟雅各，你必蒙羞，永遭毁灭。

因你对兄弟雅各行强暴，你必受羞辱，永被剪除。

因你向兄弟雅各行強暴，羞愧必遮蓋你，你也必永遠斷絕。

因你向兄弟雅各施暴，你必蒙羞，永被剪除。

因你向兄弟雅各施暴，你必蒙羞，永被剪除。

「因你曾殘暴地對待同胞兄弟雅各，你必蒙羞，永遭毀滅。

因你對兄弟雅各行強暴，你必受羞辱，永被剪除。

因你對兄弟雅各所行的強暴、羞愧必籠罩着你，你也必永遠被剪除。

以爾行暴於爾昆弟雅各、必蒙羞恥、永世見絕、

昔雅各家與以掃族、兄弟也、尚加以虐遇、故必抱愧、淪胥以亡、

因爾向爾弟雅各行強暴、必受辱蒙羞、被翦絕至永遠、

Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame; you will be destroyed forever.

You did harmful things to the people of Jacob. They are your relatives. So you will be covered with shame. You will be destroyed forever.

Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.

You will be covered with shame and destroyed forever because of violence done to your brother Jacob.

“ Because of violence to your brother Jacob, Shame will cover you, And you will be eliminated forever.

“ For violence against your brother Jacob, Shame shall cover you, And you shall be cut off forever.

For the violence done to thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

You will be covered with shame and destroyed forever because of violence done to your brother Jacob.

For[ thy] violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

“ Because you violently slaughtered your relatives, the people of Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be destroyed forever.

For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.

This is what the Lord says:“ The people of Edom have sinned again and again, and I will not let them go unpunished! They chased down their relatives, the Israelites, with swords, showing them no mercy. In their rage, they slashed them continually and were unrelenting in their anger.

While Moses was at Kadesh, he sent ambassadors to the king of Edom with this message:“ This is what your relatives, the people of Israel, say: You know all the hardships we have been through.Our ancestors went down to Egypt, and we lived there a long time, and we and our ancestors were brutally mistreated by the Egyptians.But when we cried out to the Lord, he heard us and sent an angel who brought us out of Egypt. Now we are camped at Kadesh, a town on the border of your land.Please let us travel through your land. We will be careful not to go through your fields and vineyards. We won’t even drink water from your wells. We will stay on the king’s road and never leave it until we have passed through your territory.”But the king of Edom said,“ Stay out of my land, or I will meet you with an army!”The Israelites answered,“ We will stay on the main road. If our livestock drink your water, we will pay for it. Just let us pass through your country. That’s all we ask.”But the king of Edom replied,“ Stay out! You may not pass through our land.” With that he mobilized his army and marched out against them with an imposing force.Because Edom refused to allow Israel to pass through their country, Israel was forced to turn around.

I will make you desolate forever. Your cities will never be rebuilt. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

O Lord, remember what the Edomites did on the day the armies of Babylon captured Jerusalem.“ Destroy it!” they yelled.“ Level it to the ground!”

You have made him old before his time and publicly disgraced him. Interlude

From that time on, Esau hated Jacob because their father had given Jacob the blessing. And Esau began to scheme:“ I will soon be mourning my father’s death. Then I will kill my brother, Jacob.”

“ We are ashamed,” the people say.“ We are insulted and disgraced because the Lord’s Temple has been defiled by foreigners.”

but I rejected his brother, Esau, and devastated his hill country. I turned Esau’s inheritance into a desert for jackals.”Esau’s descendants in Edom may say,“ We have been shattered, but we will rebuild the ruins.” But the Lord of Heaven’s Armies replies,“ They may try to rebuild, but I will demolish them again. Their country will be known as‘ The Land of Wickedness,’ and their people will be called‘ The People with Whom the Lord Is Forever Angry.’

Then my enemies will see that the Lord is on my side. They will be ashamed that they taunted me, saying,“ So where is the Lord— that God of yours?” With my own eyes I will see their downfall; they will be trampled like mud in the streets.

Yes, this was their unanimous decision. They signed a treaty as allies against you—these Edomites and Ishmaelites; Moabites and Hagrites;Gebalites, Ammonites, and Amalekites; and people from Philistia and Tyre.Assyria has joined them, too, and is allied with the descendants of Lot. InterludeDo to them as you did to the Midianites and as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.

May my accusers be clothed with disgrace; may their humiliation cover them like a cloak.

For I endure insults for your sake; humiliation is written all over my face.

I will clothe his enemies with shame, but he will be a glorious king.”

For I have sworn by my own name,” says the Lord,“ that Bozrah will become an object of horror and a heap of ruins; it will be mocked and cursed. All its towns and villages will be desolate forever.”

Then you will know that I, the Lord, have heard every contemptuous word you spoke against the mountains of Israel. For you said,‘ They are desolate; they have been given to us as food to eat!’In saying that, you boasted proudly against me, and I have heard it all!“ This is what the Sovereign Lord says: The whole world will rejoice when I make you desolate.You rejoiced at the desolation of Israel’s territory. Now I will rejoice at yours! You will be wiped out, you people of Mount Seir and all who live in Edom! Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Let us now lie down in shame and cover ourselves with dishonor, for we and our ancestors have sinned against the Lord our God. From our childhood to this day we have never obeyed him.”

Are you rejoicing in the land of Uz, O people of Edom? But you, too, must drink from the cup of the Lord’s anger. You, too, will be stripped naked in your drunkenness.

“ Your eternal hatred for the people of Israel led you to butcher them when they were helpless, when I had already punished them for all their sins.As surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord, since you show no distaste for blood, I will give you a bloodbath of your own. Your turn has come!I will make Mount Seir utterly desolate, killing off all who try to escape and any who return.

They will dress themselves in burlap; horror and shame will cover them. They will shave their heads in sorrow and remorse.

“ Edom will be an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will gasp at the destruction they see there.It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns,” says the Lord.“ No one will live there; no one will inhabit it.I will come like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan, leaping on the sheep in the pasture. I will chase Edom from its land, and I will appoint the leader of my choice. For who is like me, and who can challenge me? What ruler can oppose my will?”Listen to the Lord’s plans against Edom and the people of Teman. Even the little children will be dragged off like sheep, and their homes will be destroyed.

But Egypt will become a wasteland and Edom will become a wilderness, because they attacked the people of Judah and killed innocent people in their land.

“ This is what the Sovereign Lord says: The people of Edom have sinned greatly by avenging themselves against the people of Judah.Therefore, says the Sovereign Lord, I will raise my fist of judgment against Edom. I will wipe out its people and animals with the sword. I will make a wasteland of everything from Teman to Dedan.I will accomplish this by the hand of my people of Israel. They will carry out my vengeance with anger, and Edom will know that this vengeance is from me. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!

“ But look,” Jacob replied to Rebekah,“ my brother, Esau, is a hairy man, and my skin is smooth.