13 Do not enter the city gate of my peoplein their time of trouble.Do not laugh at their problemsin their time of trouble.Do not take their treasuresin their time of trouble.
14 Do not stand at the crossroadsto destroy those who are trying to escape.Do not capture those who escape alivein a time of trouble.
15 “The Lord’s day of judging is coming soonto all the nations.You did evil things to other people.Those same things will happen to you.They will come back upon your own head.
16 Because you joined the nations in robbing my Temple,you drank my anger.So all the nations will drink my anger.They will be punished so much that they will disappear.
17 But on Mount Zion some will be left alive.The mountain will be a holy place.The people of Jacob will take back their land.They will take it from those who took it from them.
18 The people of Jacob, the Israelites, will be like a fire.And the people of Joseph will be like a flame.But the people of Esau, the Edomites, will be like dry stalks.The people of Jacob will set these stalks on fire.They will burn up the Edomites.Then there will be no one left of the people of Esau.”This will happen because the Lord has said it.
19 Then God’s people will regain southern Judah from Edom,the mountain of Esau.They will take back the western mountain slopesfrom the Philistines.They will regain the lands of Ephraim and Samaria.And Benjamin will take over Gilead.