Yehezkiel 25:13-14

25:13 So this is what the sovereign Lord says: I will stretch out my hand against Edom, and I will kill the people and animals within her, ¹  and I will make her desolate; from Teman to Dedan they will die ²  by the sword. 25:14 I will exact my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel. They will carry out in Edom my anger and rage; they will experience ³  my vengeance, declares the sovereign Lord.’”

Yehezkiel 25:17

25:17 I will exact great vengeance upon them with angry rebukes. ⁴  Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I exact my vengeance upon them.’”

Amos 1:14-15

1:14 So I will set fire to Rabbah’s ⁵  city wall; ⁶ 

fire ⁷  will consume her fortresses.

War cries will be heard on the day of battle; ⁸ 

a strong gale will blow on the day of the windstorm. ⁹ 

1:15 Ammon’s ¹⁰  king will be deported; ¹¹ 

he and his officials ¹²  will be carried off ¹³  together.”

The Lord has spoken!

[25:13]  ¹ tn Heb “and I will cut off from her man and beast.”

[25:13]  ² tn Heb “fall.”

[25:14]  ³ tn Heb “know.”

[25:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “with acts of punishment of anger.”

[1:14]  ⁵ sn Rabbah was the Ammonite capital.

[1:14]  ⁶ sn The city wall symbolizes the city’s defenses and security.

[1:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “it”; the referent (the fire mentioned in the previous line) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “with a war cry in the day of battle.”

[1:14]  ⁹ tn Heb “with wind in the day of the windstorm.”

[1:14]  sn A windstorm is a metaphor for judgment and destruction in the OT (see Isa 29:6; Jer 23:19) and ancient Near Eastern literature.

[1:15]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “their”; the referent (Ammon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:15]  ¹¹ tn Heb “will go into exile.”

[1:15]  ¹² tn Or “princes” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NLT); TEV “officers”; CEV “leaders.”

[1:15]  ¹³ tn The words “will be carried off” are supplied in the translation for clarification.