Because you [of Esau] have had a perpetual enmity [for Jacob] and you gave over the sons of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, when they were suffering their final punishment [the Babylonian conquest], Therefore, as I live, says the Lord God, I will expose you to slaughter and slaughter shall pursue you; since you could not bear to live without bloodshed, therefore bloodshed shall pursue you.

May all who hate Zion
Be put to shame and turned backward [in defeat].
Verse ConceptsPersecution, Attitudes ToHating PeoplesDisappointmenthaters