Add parallel Print Page Options

The day of the Lord

15 The day of the Lord will come soon for all the world's people.[a]
God will do to you what you did to other people.
God will be angry with you because you did those things to them.
16 You drank on my special hill.[b]
In the same way, people from all countries will drink and they will not stop.
They will drink until God has killed them.[c]
17 But on Mount Zion, people will be free.
It will be special to me.
Jacob's descendants will have the country that belongs to them.
I will give it to them.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1:15 The day of the Lord is the time when God judges his people's enemies. It is when he makes his people strong again.
  2. 1:16 In verses 16-18, God is speaking to the people of Edom.
  3. 1:16 The people from Edom had drunk alcohol in God's holy place. It was where the Israelites prayed to God, in Jerusalem city. God is saying that he will punish them. It will be like when people drink poison. It will be like a drink that contains God's anger. But they will not be able to stop drinking. They will drink until God's anger has killed them all.