Jeremiah 49:7–22

^7sConcerning Edom, thus saith the Lord of hosts;

^tIs wisdom no more in ^uTeman?

^vIs counsel perished from the prudent?

Is their wisdom vanished?

^8wFlee ye, turn back,

^wDwell deep, O inhabitants of ^xDedan;

For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him,

^yThe time that I will visit him.

^9zIf grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some ^agleaning grapes?

^zIf thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.

¹⁰But ^bI have made Esau bare,

I have uncovered his secret places,

And he shall not be able to hide himself:

His seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and ^che is not.

¹¹Leave thy fatherless children, I ^dwill preserve them alive;

And let thy widows trust in me.

¹²For thus saith the Lord;

Behold, they whose judgment was ^enot to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken;

And ^fart thou he that shall altogether go unpunished?

Thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.

¹³For ^gI have sworn by myself, saith the Lord,

That ^hBozrah shall become ⁱa desolation,

^kA reproach, a waste, and ^la curse;

And all the cities thereof shall be ^mperpetual wastes.

¹⁴ⁿI have ^oheard a rumour from the Lord,

And an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, ^oosaying,

Gather ye together,

And come against her, and rise up to the battle.

¹⁵For lo, I will make thee small among the heathen,

And despised among men.

¹⁶Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart,

O thou that dwellest ^pin the clefts of ^pqthe rock,

That holdest the height of the hill:

Though ^rthou shouldest make thy ^rnest as high as the eagle,

^sI will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord.

¹⁷Also Edom ^tshall be ^ua desolation:

^vEvery one that goeth by it shall be astonished,

^vAnd shall ^uwhiss at all the plagues thereof.

^18xAs in ^ythe overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah

^xAnd ^zthe neighbour cities thereof, saith the Lord,

^xzzNo man shall abide there,

^xNeither shall a son of man dwell in it.

^19aBehold, he shall come up ^blike a lion from ^cthe swelling of Jordan

Against the habitation of the strong:

But I will suddenly make him run away from her:

And who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her?

For ^ccwho is like me? and who will appoint me the time?

And ^dwho is that shepherd ^ethat will stand before me?

²⁰Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord,

That he hath taken against Edom;

And his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of ^eeTeman:

Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out:

Surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.

^21fThe earth is moved at the noise of their fall,

At the cry, the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.

²²Behold, ^ghe shall come up and ^gfly as the eagle,

^gAnd spread his wings over ^hBozrah:

And at that day ⁱshall the heart of the mighty men of Edom

ⁱBe as the heart of a woman in her pangs.