¹⁷ and again the Edomites have come, and smite in Judah, and take captive a captivity.

¹⁰ For slaughter, for violence `to' thy brother Jacob, Cover thee doth shame, And thou hast been cut off -- to the age.

¹⁸ `And if unto these ye hearken not to Me, -- then I have added to chastise you seven times for your sins;

¹¹ And Amaziah hath strengthened himself, and leadeth his people, and goeth to the Valley of Salt, and smiteth the sons of Seir -- ten thousand.

¹² And ten thousand alive have the sons of Judah taken captive, and they bring them to the top of the rock, and cast them from the top of the rock, and all of them have been broken.

¹³ Nor come into a gate of My people in a day of their calamity, Nor look, even thou, on its misfortune in a day of its calamity, Nor send forth against its force in a day of its calamity,

¹⁴ Nor stand by the breach to cut off its escaped, Nor deliver up its remnant in a day of distress.