²⁰ At his fate those of the west are shocked, and those of the east are overcome with fear.

¹³ He will be laughed at by the Lord, who sees that his day is coming.

²⁵ And you, O evil one, wounded to death, O ruler of Israel, whose day has come in the time of the last punishment;

²⁷ Put all her oxen to the sword; let them go down to death: sorrow is theirs, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.

⁴⁴ And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy.

⁴² Saying, If you, even you, had knowledge today, of the things which give peace! but you are not able to see them.

¹¹ Because you were there watching when men from other lands took away his goods, and strange men came into his doors, and put the fate of Jerusalem to the decision of chance; you were like one of them.

¹² Do not see with pleasure your brother's evil day, the day of his fate, and do not be glad over the children of Judah on the day of their destruction, or make wide your mouth on the day of trouble.

¹³ Do not go into the doors of my people on the day of their downfall; do not be looking on their trouble with pleasure on the day of their downfall, or put your hands on their goods on the day of their downfall.

¹⁴ And do not take your place at the cross-roads, cutting off those of his people who get away; and do not give up to their haters those who are still there in the day of trouble.

¹⁵ For the day of the Lord is coming quickly on all nations: as you have done it will be done to you; the reward of your acts will come on your head.

¹⁶ Making their land a thing of wonder, causing sounds of surprise for ever; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, shaking his head.

⁷ O Lord, keep in mind against the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem; how they said, Let it be uncovered, uncovered even to its base.

¹³ He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.

¹⁴ My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.

¹⁵ I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country.

¹⁶ At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him.

¹⁷ My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother's body.

¹⁸ Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.

¹⁹ All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.

¹² And lifting up their eyes when they were still far off, it did not seem that the man they saw was Job because of the change in him. And they gave way to bitter weeping, with signs of grief, and put dust on their heads.

¹³ And they took their seats on the earth by his side for seven days and seven nights: but no one said a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

⁸ And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder at it and make whistling sounds; and they will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?

²³ And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath:

²⁴ Truly all the nations will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land? what is the reason for this great and burning wrath?