Just as you, along with other nations, have mocked My people, so too will all nations mock you, consuming and devouring you through the same persecutions you once enacted.
For the day of the Lord is coming for all nations: what you have done will be done to you. Your retribution shall return upon you. Just as you have drunk from My holy mountain, so all nations will also partake, swallowing down the consequences. You, O Idumea, will cease your ways, for the Lord’s discipline will come upon you. If, as Jeremiah indicates (25:29), those who did not wish to drink the cup must drink it nonetheless, how can you consider yourself blameless? You will not escape but will surely partake. The proclamation, 'The day of the Lord is near for all nations,' aligns with Jeremiah’s message concerning the cup the Lord offers to all nations, as he states, 'the cup of the Lord is in the hand of the Lord, pouring out upon all nations' (Jeremiah 51:7). Truly, nations far and wide were subdued by the Assyrians and Babylonians. Historical accounts confirm that during the reign of the Babylonians and Assyrians, the prophecy 'the day of the Lord is near for all nations' was fulfilled.
The subsequent phrases, 'As you have done, so shall they do to you; Your recompense will return to your head,' echo the sentiment found in the Psalm: 'Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom on the day of Jerusalem, saying, "Lay it bare, lay it bare even to its foundations"’ (Psalm 136:7). The prophet also curses Babylon, saying: 'O wretched Babylon, blessed is he who repays you for what you have done to us; blessed is he who takes and dashes your little ones against a stone' (Psalm 136:8-9). Just as you drank and rejoiced upon My holy mountain, Zion, alongside the Babylonians, so will the nations that joined in that revelry drink and rejoice when they rise against you. They will not only partake of the cup, but they will consume you entirely, rendering the Idumeans as though they never existed. The very nations that devour you may in turn be consumed by the Midianites, illustrating a cycle of judgment: you will bring destruction upon Israel, which in turn will face destruction by the Babylonians, who will be judged by the Medes and Persians.
Let us follow the proper line of interpretation: the day of the Lord is approaching, O heretic, for all nations; the time for judgment is imminent, where all nations will face their reckoning. As you have acted toward the members of the Church, so shall your suffering be brought upon you, and your unrighteous deeds will return to your dwelling (Psalm 7:17). Your joy in their hardships and your feasting in My holy assembly, where you drank from a cup not of My making but of the evil one, are condemned, as Habakkuk states: 'Woe unto him that drinks with his friend, mixing in his corrupt ways' (Habakkuk 2:15). Thus, all nations—both the agents of judgment and any hostile forces—will taste and consume your suffering, and when the time of reckoning arrives, they themselves will no longer exist. As the Scriptures declare concerning those who perish, in the sight of the One who told Moses, 'I AM who I AM' (Exodus 3:14), they are often labeled as non-existent. The book of Esther reminds us: 'You shall not, O Lord, hand over Your kingdom to those who are nothing' (Esther 4:17). Additionally, we may interpret this differently: just as you rejoiced in the downfall of My servants, so too shall the same persecution return upon you, and you will endure all that you have inflicted. As you have rejoiced in unison with other nations against My people, all nations will now rejoice in their judgment upon you, consuming and destroying you through the same kinds of persecution.
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