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Rejoicek and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup alsol shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.

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Eccl. 11:9• ⁹Rejoice, young man, in thy youth;{HR}And let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth,{HR}And walk in the ways of thy heart,{HR}And in the sight of thine eyes;{HR}But know that for all these [things]{HR}God will bring thee into judgment.{HR} (Eccl. 11:9)

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Obad. 10• ¹⁰For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off forever. (Obad. 10)

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be glad.

Psa. 83:3‑12• ³Against thy people they devise secret craft{HR}And consult against thy hidden ones.
⁴They said, Come, and we will cut them off from [being] a nation,{HR}And let the name of Israel be remembered no more.
⁵For they have heartily consulted together;{HR}Against thee do they make a covenant:
⁶The tents of Edom, and the Ishmaelites,{HR}Moab and the Hagarenes;
⁷Gebal and Ammon and Amalek;{HR}Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
⁸Asshur also is joined with them;{HR}They are an arm to the sons of Lot. Selah.
⁹Do to them as [to] Midian, as [to] Sisera,{HR}As [to] Jabin, at the river Kishon.
¹⁰They were destroyed at Endor;{HR}They became dung for the ground.
¹¹Make their nobles as Oreb and as Zeeb;{HR}Yea, all their princes as Zebah and as Zalmunna;
¹²Who said, Let us take to our inheritance the habitations of God. (Psa. 83:3‑12)

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Psa. 137:7• ⁷Remember, Jehovah, to Edom's sons the day of Jerusalem,{HR}Who said, Rase, rase, down to its foundation. (Psa. 137:7)

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Eccl. 11:9• ⁹Rejoice, young man, in thy youth;{HR}And let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth,{HR}And walk in the ways of thy heart,{HR}And in the sight of thine eyes;{HR}But know that for all these [things]{HR}God will bring thee into judgment.{HR} (Eccl. 11:9)

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Ezek. 25:6,8• ⁶For thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel;
⁸Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen; (Ezek. 25:6,8)

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Ezek. 26:2• ²Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste: (Ezek. 26:2)

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Ezek. 35:11‑15• ¹¹therefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
¹²And thou shalt know that I am Jehovah, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
¹³Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
¹⁴Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.
¹⁵As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, Ο mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it; and they shall know that I am Jehovah. (Ezek. 35:11‑15)

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Obad. 10‑16• ¹⁰For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off forever.
¹¹In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem even thou wast one of them.
¹²But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger, neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.
¹³Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity.
¹⁴Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress.
¹⁵For the day of Jehovah is near on all the heathen. As thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee. Thy reward shall return upon thine own head.
¹⁶For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been. (Obad. 10‑16)

the land.

Gen. 36:28• ²⁸These are the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran. (Gen. 36:28)

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Job 1:1• ¹There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and fearing God, and eschewing evil. (Job 1:1)

the cup.

Isa. 34:1‑17• ¹Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples: let the earth hear, and the fullness thereof; the world, and all that cometh forth of it.
²For the indignation of Jehovah [is] upon all the nations, and fury against all their armies; he hath devoted them to destruction, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
³Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up from their carcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
⁴And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall away, as a leaf fadeth from off the vine, and as the withered [fruit] from the fig-tree.
⁵For my sword shall be bathed in the heavens; behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my ban, to judgment.
⁶The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Jehovah hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
⁷And the wild-oxen shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
⁸For [it is] the day of Jehovah's vengeance, the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.
⁹And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
¹⁰It shall not be quenched night and day; the smoke thereof shall go up forever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.
¹¹But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein. And he shall stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.
¹²They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none [shall be] there; and all her princes shall be nothing.
¹³And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.
¹⁴And the wild beasts of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; yea, the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest.
¹⁵There shall the arrow snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: yea, there shall the kites be gathered, every one with her mate.
¹⁶Seek ye out of the book of Jehovah and read: not one of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it hath commanded, and his spirit, it hath gathered them.
¹⁷And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it forever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein. (Isa. 34:1‑17)

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Isa. 63:1‑6• ¹Who [is] this that cometh from Edom, with deep-red garments from Bozrah, this [that is] glorious in his apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
²Wherefore [art thou] red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the wine-vat?
³I have trodden the wine-press alone: and of the peoples not a man was with me; and I have trodden them in mine anger, and trampled them in my fury; and their blood is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all my raiment.
⁴For the day of vengeance [is] in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
⁵And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: and mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
⁶And I have trodden down the peoples in mine anger, and made them drunk in my fury, and I have brought down their strength to the earth. (Isa. 63:1‑6)

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Jer. 25:15‑29• ¹⁵For thus saith Jehovah God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
¹⁶And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
¹⁷Then took I the cup at Jehovah's hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom Jehovah had sent me.
¹⁸To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing and a curse as it is this day;
¹⁹Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;
²⁰and all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Uzzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
²¹Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
²²and all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,
²³Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,
²⁴and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert,
²⁵and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,
²⁶and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
²⁷Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
²⁸And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.
²⁹For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith Jehovah of hosts. (Jer. 25:15‑29)

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Jer. 49:12• ¹²For thus saith Jehovah; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it. (Jer. 49:12)

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Ezek. 25:12‑14• ¹²Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;
¹³therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.
¹⁴And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 25:12‑14)

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Ezek. 35:3‑9• ³Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Behold, Ο mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
⁴I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.
⁵Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end;
⁶therefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: since thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
⁷Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.
⁸And I will fill his mountain with his slain men: in thy hills and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
⁹I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah. (Ezek. 35:3‑9)

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Amos 1:11• ¹¹Thus saith Jehovah; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath forever: (Amos 1:11)

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Obad. 1,10‑14• ¹The vision of Obadiah.
¹⁰For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off forever.
¹¹In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem even thou wast one of them.
¹²But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger, neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.
¹³Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity.
¹⁴Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress. (Obad. 1,10‑14)

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Mal. 1:2‑4• ²I have loved you, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith Jehovah: yet I loved Jacob,
³And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
⁴Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom Jehovah hath indignation forever. (Mal. 1:2‑4)

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2 Chron. 28:19• ¹⁹For Jehovah humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had made Judah lawless, and transgressed much against Jehovah. (2 Chron. 28:19)

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Mic. 1:11• ¹¹Pass away, inhabitress of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame. The inhabitress of Zaanan is not come forth for the lamentation of Beth-ezel: he will take from you its shelter. (Mic. 1:11)

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Rev. 16:15• ¹⁵(Behold, I come as a thief: blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his raiment, that he walk not naked, and they see not his shame.) (Rev. 16:15)

• {v.21-22} Did they say in the day of Jerusalem, Down with it, down with it to the very foundation? They too must be brought to shame. If the Chaldean swept the holy land, the daughter of Edom must await no less when her day came to be carried away captive for her sins. (“Lamentations of Jeremiah: Chapter 4:12-22” by W. Kelly)

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Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz: the cup shall pass also unto thee; thou shalt be drunken, and make thyself naked.

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Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz;{HR}The cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.