“I, the Lord who rules over all, say: ¹  ‘This place will indeed lie in ruins. There will be no people or animals in it. But there will again be in it and in its towns sheepfolds where shepherds can rest their sheep.

Your presumptuous heart ¹  has deceived you – you who reside in the safety of the rocky cliffs, ²  whose home is high in the mountains. ³  You think to yourself, ⁴  ‘No one can ⁵  bring me down to the ground!’ ⁶ 

Simeon and Levi are brothers, weapons of violence are their knives! ¹ 

You must not kindle a fire ¹  in any of your homes ²  on the Sabbath day.” ³ 

From the place where he lives he looks carefully at all the earth’s inhabitants.

They wandered through the wilderness on a desert road; they found no city in which to live.

Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his kingdom.

But ¹  you are willing to forgive, ²  so that you might ³  be honored. ⁴ 

The one who ¹  is slack ²  in his work is a brother ³  to one who destroys. ⁴ 

Their peaceful dwelling places will be laid waste ¹  by the fierce anger of the Lord. ² 

ב (Bet) The Lord ¹  destroyed ²  mercilessly ³  all the homes of Jacob’s descendants. ⁴  In his anger he tore down the fortified cities ⁵  of Daughter Judah. He knocked to the ground and humiliated the kingdom and its rulers. ⁶ 

For I see that you are bitterly envious ¹  and in bondage to sin.”

and endurance, character, and character, hope.

Contribute to the needs of the saints, pursue hospitality.

Since many ¹  are boasting according to human standards, ²  I too will boast.

chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom, according to their settlements ¹  in the land they possessed. This was Esau, the father of the Edomites.

if you become ¹  pure ²  and upright, ³  even now he will rouse himself ⁴  for you, and will restore ⁵  your righteous abode. ⁶ 

Far from where people live ¹  he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, ²  far from other people he dangles and sways. ³ 

They will travel to Sheol like sheep, ¹  with death as their shepherd. ²  The godly will rule ³  over them when the day of vindication dawns; ⁴  Sheol will consume their bodies and they will no longer live in impressive houses. ⁵ 

The dry soil will become a pool of water, the parched ground springs of water. Where jackals once lived and sprawled out, grass, reeds, and papyrus will grow.