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Even if you fly high like the eagle
    and make your nest among the stars,
    I will bring you down from there,” says the Lord.
“You will really be ruined!
If thieves came to you,
    if robbers came by night,
    they would steal only enough for themselves.
If workers came and picked the grapes from your vines,
    they would leave a few behind.
But you, Edom, will really lose everything!
    People will find all your hidden treasures!

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Though you soar like the eagle
    and make your nest(A) among the stars,
    from there I will bring you down,”(B)
declares the Lord.(C)
“If thieves came to you,
    if robbers in the night—
oh, what a disaster awaits you!—
    would they not steal only as much as they wanted?
If grape pickers came to you,
    would they not leave a few grapes?(D)
But how Esau will be ransacked,
    his hidden treasures pillaged!

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