“At the sound of their fall,
The earth shall tremble.
The sound of their cry
Shall be heard
At the Red Sea.
Look!
He shall mount up.
He shall swoop down
Like an eagle.
He shall spread his wings
Against Bozrah.
The heart of the warriors
Of Edom,
On that day,
Shall be
Like the heart
Of a woman in labor.”
The fall of the Edomites would be so loud that the earth would tremble like an earthquake. The sounds of the cries from Edom could be heard as far away as the Red Sea in Egypt. As in the preceding chapter about Moab, the king of Babylon would swoop down like a spread eagle upon the major capital city of Bozrah. Then, just like in the preceding chapter again, the Edomite warriors, like the Moabite warriors, would become like women in labor. However, there is no mention of a restoration of Edom, like earlier for Moab and Ammon.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 