9 If grape gatherers came to you,would they not leave some gleaning grapes?If thieves came by night,wouldn’t they steal until they had enough?
10 But I have made Esau bare,I have uncovered his secret places,and he will not be able to hide himself.His offspring is destroyed,with his brothers and his neighbors;and he is no more.
11 Leave your fatherless children.I will preserve them alive.Let your widows trust in me.”
12 For the Lord says: “Behold, they to whom it didn’t pertain to drink of the cup will certainly drink; and are you he who will altogether go unpunished? You won’t go unpunished, but you will surely drink.
13 For I have sworn by myself,” says the Lord, “that Bozrah will become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. All its cities will be perpetual wastes.”
14 I have heard news from the Lord,and an ambassador is sent among the nations,saying, “Gather yourselves together!Come against her!Rise up to the battle!”
15 “For, behold, I have made you small among the nations,and despised among men.