The fields will be a barren waste, covered with sulfur and salt; nothing will be planted, and not even weeds will grow there. Your land will be like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, of Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed when he was furiously angry.

Then the whole world will ask, 'Why did the LORD do this to their land? What was the reason for his fierce anger?'

This Temple will become a pile of ruins, and everyone who passes by will be shocked and amazed. 'Why did the LORD do this to this land and this Temple?' they will ask.

They have made this land a thing of horror, to be despised forever. All who pass by will be shocked at what they see; they will shake their heads in amazement.

But the Lord laughs at wicked people, because he knows they will soon be destroyed.

Remember, LORD, what the Edomites did the day Jerusalem was captured. Remember how they kept saying, "Tear it down to the ground!"

"You wicked, unholy ruler of Israel, your day, the day of your final punishment, is coming.

You stood aside on that day when enemies broke down their gates. You were as bad as those strangers who carried off Jerusalem's wealth and divided it among themselves.

You should not have entered the city of my people to gloat over their suffering and to seize their riches on the day of their disaster.

"The day is near when I, the LORD, will judge all nations. Edom, what you have done will be done to you. You will get back what you have given.

saying, "If you only knew today what is needed for peace! But now you cannot see it!

They will completely destroy you and the people within your walls; not a single stone will they leave in its place, because you did not recognize the time when God came to save you!"

While they were still a long way off they saw Job, but did not recognize him. When they did, they began to weep and wail, tearing their clothes in grief and throwing dust into the air and on their heads.

Then they sat there on the ground with him for seven days and nights without saying a word, because they saw how much he was suffering.

God has made my own family forsake me; I am a stranger to those who knew me;

Those who were guests in my house have forgotten me; my servant women treat me like a stranger and a foreigner.

My wife can't stand the smell of my breath, and my own brothers won't come near me.

My closest friends look at me with disgust; those I loved most have turned against me.