Bible Verses About The Edomites

To the kingdom her freemen they call, But there are none there, And all her princes are at an end.

And gone up her palaces have thorns, Nettle and bramble are in her fortresses, And it hath been a habitation of dragons, A court for daughters of an ostrich.

And met have Ziim with Aiim, And the goat for its companion calleth, Only there rested hath the night-owl, And hath found for herself a place of rest.

There made her nest hath the bittern, Yea, she layeth, and hath hatched, And hath gathered under her shadow, Only there gathered have been vultures, Each with its companion.

Seek out of the book of Jehovah, and read, One of these hath not been lacking, None hath missed its companion, For My mouth--it hath commanded, And His spirit--He hath gathered them.

And He hath cast for them a lot, And His hand hath apportioned it to them by line, Unto the age they possess it, To all generations they dwell in it!

`Who is this coming from Edom? With dyed garments from Bozrah? This that is honourable in his clothing, Travelling in the abundance of his power?' --`I, speaking in righteousness, mighty to save.'

`Wherefore is thy clothing red? And thy garments as treading in a wine fat?'

--`A wine-press I have trodden by myself, And of the peoples there is no one with me, And I tread them in mine anger, And I trample them in my fury, Sprinkled is their strength on my garments, And all my clothing I have polluted.

For the day of vengeance is in my heart, And the year of my redeemed hath come.

`For thus said Jehovah God of Israel unto me, Take the wine cup of this fury out of My hand, and thou hast caused all the nations to drink it unto whom I am sending thee;

And they have drunk, and shaken themselves and shewn themselves foolish, because of the sword that I am sending among them.

`And I take the cup out of the hand of Jehovah, and cause all the nations to drink unto whom Jehovah sent me:

Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, And its kings, its heads, To give them to waste, to astonishment, To hissing, and to reviling, as at this day.

Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, And his heads, and all his people,

And all the mixed people, And all the kings of the land of Uz, And all the kings of the land of the Philistines, And Ashkelon, and Gazzah, and Ekron, And the remnant of Ashdod,

Edom, and Moab, and the sons of Ammon,

And all the kings of Tyre, And all the kings of Zidon, And the kings of the isle that is beyond the sea,

Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, And all cutting the corners of the beard ,

And all the kings of Arabia, And all the kings of the mixed people, Who are dwelling in the wilderness,

And all the kings of Zimri, And all the kings of Elam, And all the kings of Media,

And all the kings of the north, The near and the far off, one unto another, And all the kingdoms of the earth, That are on the face of the ground, And king Sheshach drinketh after them.

And thou hast said unto them: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts God of Israel, Drink ye, yea drink abundantly, And vomit, and fall, and rise not, Because of the sword that I am sending among you.

And thou hast put them on thy neck, and hast sent them unto the king of Edom, and unto the king of Moab, and unto the king of the sons of Ammon, and unto the king of Tyre, and unto the king of Zidon, by the hand of messengers who are coming in to Jerusalem, unto Zedekiah king of Judah;

And thou hast commanded them for their lords, saying, Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel,