Thematic Bible: Punishment for persecuting israel
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Edomites, the » Predictions respecting » Punishment for persecuting israel
When my sword is drenched in the heavens, look! It will descend upon Edom, and upon the people of my ban, for judgment. {Yahweh has a sword}; it is full [of] blood. It is covered with fat, with [the] blood of lambs and goats, with [the] fat of [the] kidneys of rams, for {Yahweh has a sacrifice} in Bozrah and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. And wild oxen shall go down with them, and steers with strong bulls. And their land shall be drenched with blood, and their soil shall be fattened with fat. read more.
For {Yahweh has a day of vengeance}, a year of retribution for the strife of Zion.
For {Yahweh has a day of vengeance}, a year of retribution for the strife of Zion.
Who [is] this, coming from Edom, from Bozrah [in] bright red garments? [Who is] this honored in his garment, lying down in his great strength? "[It is] I, speaking in justice, {mighty} to save!" Why [are] your garments red, and your garments like he who treads in [the] winepress? "I have trodden [the] winepress alone, and there was no man from [the] peoples with me. And I trod them in my anger, and I trampled them in my wrath, and spattered their juice on my garments, and stained all my clothing, read more.
for [the] day of vengeance [was] in my heart, and the year of my blood-vengeance has come!
for [the] day of vengeance [was] in my heart, and the year of my blood-vengeance has come!
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz; but to you also the cup will pass, you will become drunk and strip yourself bare.
Verse Concepts
therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "so I will stretch out my hand against Edom and I will cut off from it [both] human and animal, and I will make it a ruin from Teman and Dedan; they will fall by the sword. And I will exact my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they will do in Edom according to my anger and according to my rage, and they will know my vengeance," {declares} the Lord Yahweh.