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What the Lord Says about Edom

(A)(B) The Lord All-Powerful says about Edom:

Wisdom and common sense
    have vanished from Teman.[a]
I will send disaster to punish
    you descendants of Esau,[b]
so anyone from Dedan[c]
had better turn around
    and run back home.[d]
People who harvest grapes
    leave some for the poor.
Thieves who break in at night
    take only what they want.

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Footnotes

  1. 49.7,8 Teman: The name of a town in Edom, sometimes used as the name of the northern half of the nation of Edom; here it probably stands for the whole nation.
  2. 49.7,8 Esau: The ancestor of the nation of Edom.
  3. 49.7,8 Dedan: The name of a town in northwest Arabia, also used of the northwest region of Arabia along the Red Sea.
  4. 49.7,8 anyone … home: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

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