11 Leave your orphans. I will let them live. And your widows, let them trust in me.”
12 For thus says Yahweh, “Look, those who are not condemned to drink the cup must certainly drink it. And are you the one who will go entirely unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must certainly drink it.
13 For I have sworn by myself,” declares Yahweh, “that Bozrah will become as a horror, as a disgrace, as a waste, and as a curse. And all her towns will be everlasting sites of ruins.”
14 I have heard a message from Yahweh, and a messenger has been sent among the nations. “Gather and come against her, and rise for the battle.”
15 “For look, I will make you small among the nations, despised by the humankind.
16 Your terror has deceived you, the pride of your heart, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, you who seize the height of the hill. Though you make your nest high like the eagle, from there I will bring you down,” declares Yahweh.
17 “And Edom will become as a horror, everyone who passes by it will be appalled, and will hiss because of all its blows.