Bible Verses About The Edomites

Of its nobles, none will be called to be king, and all its princes will be nothing.

Thorns will overgrow its palaces, nettles and thistles its fortresses; it will become a lair for jackals, an enclosure for ostriches.

Wildcats and hyenas will meet there; and billy-goats call to each other; Lilit [the night monster] will lurk there and find herself a place to rest.

There the hoot owl will nest, lay her eggs, hatch and gather her young in its shade. There the vultures will assemble, every one with its mate.

Consult the book of ADONAI and read it: not one of these will be missing, none will be lacking a mate. For by his own mouth he gave the order, and by his Spirit he brought them together.

It is he who cast the lot for them, his hand measured out their shares. They will possess it forever, and live there through all generations.

Who is this, coming from Edom, from Botzrah with clothing stained crimson, so magnificently dressed, so stately in his great strength? "It is I, who speak victoriously, I, well able to save."

Why is your apparel red, your clothes like someone treading a winepress?

"I have trodden the winepress alone; from the peoples, not one was with me. So I trod them in my anger, trampled them in my fury; so their lifeblood spurted out on my clothing, and I have stained all my garments;

for the day of vengeance that was in my heart and my year of redemption have come.

"For here is what ADONAI the God of Isra'el says to me: 'Take this cup of the wine of fury from my hand, and make all the nations where I am sending you drink it.

They will drink, stagger to and fro and behave like crazy people because of the sword that I will send among them.'"

Then I took the cup from ADONAI's hand and made all the nations drink, where ADONAI had sent me -

Yerushalayim and the cities of Y'hudah, along with their kings and leaders, to make them a ruin and an object of horror, ridicule and cursing, as it is today;

Pharaoh king of Egypt, with his servants and leaders and all his people, both native

and foreign; all the kings of the land of 'Utz; all the kings of the land of the P'lishtim, Ashkelon, 'Azah, 'Ekron and those remaining in Ashdod;

Edom, Mo'av, and the people of 'Amon;

all the kings of Tzor, of Tzidon and of the coastlands across the sea;

D'dan, Teima, Buz and all who cut the corners of their beards;

all the kings of Arabia and of the mixed peoples living in the desert;

all the kings of Zimri, of 'Eilam and of the Medes;

and all the kings of the north, far and near, one after another - indeed, all the kingdoms of the world that there are on the surface of the earth. And the king of Sheshakh will drink last of all.

"You are to say to them, 'Here is what ADONAI-Tzva'ot, the God of Isra'el, says: Drink until you're so drunk that you throw up, fall down, and never get up again, because of the sword I am sending among you!'

Send [similar yokes] to the kings of Edom, of Mo'av, of the people of 'Amon, of Tzor, and of Tzidon by means of the envoys they send to Yerushalayim, and to Tzidkiyahu king of Y'hudah.

Give them this message for their masters by telling their envoys that ADONAI-Tzva'ot, the God of Isra'el, says for them to tell their masters: