² Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.

¹⁸ Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession, [who were] his enemies; While Israel does valiantly.

⁹ Yahweh of hosts has purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

⁷ Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich: He brings low, he also lifts up.

⁸ He raises up the poor out of the dust, He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, Inherit the throne of glory: For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh's, He has set the world on them.

²⁵ Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

²⁶ He strikes them as wicked men In the open sight of others;

²⁷ Because they turned aside from following him, And wouldn't have regard in any of his ways:

²⁸ So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, He heard the cry of the afflicted.

²⁹ When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? Alike whether to a nation, or to a man:

³⁹ Again, they are diminished and bowed down Through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.

⁴⁰ He pours contempt on princes, And causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

¹⁵ It shall be the base of the kingdoms; neither shall it any more lift itself up above the nations: and I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.

¹⁰ Then my enemy will see it, And shame will cover her who said to me, Where is Yahweh your God? Then my enemy will see me and will cover her shame. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.

⁵¹ He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart.

⁵² He has put down princes from their thrones. And has exalted the lowly.