You complacent women, get up and listen to me! You carefree daughters, pay attention to what I say!

Fairness will produce peace and result in lasting security.

My people will live in peaceful settlements, in secure homes, and in safe, quiet places.

Do not be afraid of those to whom I send you, for I will be with you to protect you,” says the Lord.

Be amazed at this, O heavens! Be shocked and utterly dumbfounded,” says the Lord.

We hoped for good fortune, but nothing good has come of it. We hoped for a time of relief, but instead we experience terror.

My heart is crushed because my dear people are being crushed. I go about crying and grieving. I am overwhelmed with dismay.

They are dismayed because the ground is cracked because there has been no rain in the land. The farmers, too, are dismayed and bury their faces in their hands.

Do not cause me dismay! You are my source of safety in times of trouble.

“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.

They will report that the fords have been captured, the reed marshes have been burned, the soldiers are terrified.

Because he considered and turned from all the sins he had done, he will surely live; he will not die.

Those both near and far from you will mock you, you with your bad reputation, full of turmoil.

“For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Bring up an army against them and subject them to terror and plunder.

Now the coastlands will tremble on the day of your fall; the coastlands by the sea will be terrified by your passing.’

The traders among the peoples hiss at you; you have become a horror, and will be no more.’”

When Ephraim spoke, there was terror; he was exalted in Israel, but he became guilty by worshiping Baal and died.

The sunlight will be turned to darkness and the moon to the color of blood, before the day of the Lord comes – that great and terrible day!

Bravehearted warriors will run away naked in that day.” The Lord is speaking!

Your warriors will be shattered, O Teman, so that everyone will be destroyed from Esau’s mountain!