Jeremiah 49:14–22

¹⁴I have heard an envoy from the Lord;

a messenger has been sent among the nations:

Assemble yourselves to come against her.

Rise up for war!

¹⁵I will certainly make you insignificant among the nations,

despised among humanity.

¹⁶As to the terror you cause,^B

your arrogant heart has deceived you.

You who live in the clefts of the rock,^C

you who occupy the mountain summit,

though you elevate your nest like the eagles,

even from there I will bring you down.

This is the Lord’s declaration.^a

¹⁷“Edom will become a desolation. Everyone who passes by her will be appalled and scoff because of all her wounds.^{b 18}As when Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors,”^c says the Lord, “no one will live there; no human being will stay in it even temporarily.^d

¹⁹“Look, it will be like a lion coming from the thickets^D of the Jordan to the watered grazing land.^e I will chase Edom away from her land in a flash. I will appoint whoever is chosen for her. For who is like me?^f Who will issue me a summons?^g Who is the shepherd who can stand against me?”^h

²⁰Therefore, hear the plans that the Lord has drawn up against Edom and the strategies he has devised against the people of Teman:ⁱ The flock’s little lambs will certainly be dragged away,^j and their grazing land will be made desolate because of them.^{k 21}At the sound of their fall the earth will quake;^l the sound of her cry will be heard at the Red Sea.^{m 22}Look! It will be like an eagle soaring upward, then swooping down and spreading its wings over Bozrah. In that day the hearts of Edom’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman with contractions.ⁿ