Jeremiah 49:14–22

¹⁴I have heard a message from Yahweh,

and a messenger has been sent among the nations.

“Gather and come against her,

and rise for the battle.”

¹⁵“For look, I will make you small among the nations,

despised by the humankind.

¹⁶Your terror has deceived you,

the pride of your heart,

O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock,

you who seize the height of the hill.

Though you make your nest high like the eagle,

from there I will bring you down,” declares^w Yahweh.

¹⁷“And Edom will become as a horror,

everyone who passes by it^x will be appalled,

and will hiss because of all its blows.

¹⁸As the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah

and their neighbors,” says Yahweh,

“no one^y will live there,

and the son of humankind will not dwell as an alien in it.

¹⁹Look, like a lion he comes up from the thickets of the Jordan

to a pastureland by a constantly flowing stream.^z

So I will chase him away hurriedly^a from it.

And whoever is chosen I will appoint over it.

For who is like me, and who can summon me?

And who is this, the shepherd who can stand before me?”^b

²⁰Therefore^c hear the plan of Yahweh that he has planned against Edom,

and his plans that he has planned against the inhabitants of Teman.

Surely^d they will drag them away,

the little ones of the flock.

Surely^e he will cause to be desolated over them

their grazing place.

²¹The earth will quake from the sound of their falling.

A cry of distress! Their voice will be heard at the Red Sea.^f

²²Look, like an eagle he will go up and he will swoop down,

and he will spread out his wings against Bozrah.

And the heart of the warriors of Edom will be in that day

like the heart of a woman who is in labor.