ave sent thee out even to the border: all the men of thy
confederacy have deceived thee: the men of thy peace have prevailed
against thee: they that eat with thee shall lay snares under thee: there
is no wisdom in him.

1:8. Shall not I in that day, saith the Lord, destroy the wise out of
Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?

1:9. And thy valiant men of the south shall be afraid, that man may be
cut off from the mount of Esau.

1:10. For the slaughter, and for the iniquity against thy brother Jacob,
confusion shall cover thee, and thou shalt perish for ever.

1:11. In the day when thou stoodest against him, when strangers carried
away his army captive, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast
lots upon Jerusalem: thou also wast as one of them.

1:12. But thou shalt not look on in the day of thy brother, in the day
of his leaving his country: and thou shalt not rejoice over the children
of Juda, in the day of their destruction: and thou shalt not magnify thy
mouth in the day of distress.

Thou shalt not look, etc... or, thou shouldst not, etc. It is a
reprehension for what they had done, and at the same time a declaration
that these things should not pass unpunished.-Ibid. Thou shalt not
magnify thy mouth... That is, thou shalt not speak arrogantly against
the children of Juda as insulting them in their distress.

1:13. Neither shalt thou enter into the gate of my people in the day of
their ruin: neither shalt thou also look on in his evils in the day of
his calamity: and thou shalt not be sent out against his army in the day
of his desolation.

1:14. Neither shalt thou stand in the crossways to kill them that flee:
and thou shalt not shut up them that remain of him in the day of
tribulation.

1:15. For the day of the Lord is at hand upon all nations: as thou hast
done, so shall it be done to thee: he will turn thy reward upon thy own
head.

1:16. For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, so all nations shall
drink continually: and they shall drink, and sup up, and they shall be
as though they were not.

1:17. And in mount Sion shall be salvation, and it shall be holy, and
the house of Jacob shall possess those that possessed them.

1:18. And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a
flame, and the house of Esau stubble: and they shall be kindled in them,
and shall devour them: and there shall be no remains of the house of
Esau, for the Lord hath spoken it.

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