I will threaten Ariel, and she will mourn intensely and become like an altar hearth ¹  before me.

When she has left him ¹  she may go and become someone else’s wife.

From that time ¹  when one came expecting a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures from it, there were only twenty.

Babylonia ¹  will be plundered. Those who plunder it will take all they want,” says the Lord. ² 

The earth will become desolate ¹  because of what its inhabitants have done. ² 

The seacoast ¹  will be used as pasture lands ²  by the shepherds and as pens for their flocks.

I will place ¹  my rainbow ²  in the clouds, and it will become ³  a guarantee of the covenant between me and the earth.

They must indeed be circumcised, ¹  whether born in your house or bought with money. The sign of my covenant ²  will be visible in your flesh as a permanent ³  reminder.

You are to put it under the ledge of the altar below, so that the network will come ¹  halfway up the altar. ² 

they must wash ¹  their hands and their feet so that they do not die. And this ²  will be a perpetual ordinance for them and for their descendants ³  throughout their generations.” ⁴ 

You must put pure frankincense ¹  on each row, ²  and it will become a memorial portion ³  for the bread, a gift ⁴  to the Lord.

You may have the Sabbath produce ¹  of the land to eat – you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you, ² 

I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword ¹  after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

Your carcasses will be food for every bird of the sky and wild animal of the earth, and there will be no one to chase them off.

They charged ¹  two-thirds of a shekel ²  to sharpen plowshares and cutting instruments, and a third of a shekel ³  to sharpen picks and axes, and to set ox goads.

Here is a message about Damascus: “Look, Damascus is no longer a city, it is a heap of ruins!

Edom’s ¹  streams will be turned into pitch and her soil into brimstone; her land will become burning pitch.

Her fortresses will be overgrown with thorns; thickets and weeds will grow ¹  in her fortified cities. Jackals will settle there; ostriches will live there. ² 

Then the dead bodies of these people will be left on the ground for the birds and wild animals to eat. ¹  There will not be any survivors to scare them away.

“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by it will be filled with horror; they will hiss out their scorn because of all the disasters that have happened to it. ¹