Jeremiah 49:8–22

⁸Flee! Turn back! Get down low!^m

O inhabitants of Dedan.

For I will bring upon him the disaster of Esau

at the time when I will punish him.

⁹If grape-gatherers come to you,

would they not leave gleanings?

If thieves in the night,

they destroy only enough for them.ⁿ

¹⁰But I have stripped Esau bare.

I have uncovered his hiding places,

and he is not able to hide himself.

His offspring are devastated, along with^o his brothers,

and his neighbors, and he is no more.^p

¹¹Leave your orphans. I will let them^q live.

And your widows, let them trust in me.”

¹²For thus says Yahweh, “Look, those who are not condemned^r to drink the cup must certainly drink it.^s And are you the one who will go entirely unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must certainly drink it.^{t 13}For I have sworn by myself,” declares^u Yahweh, “that Bozrah will become as a horror, as a disgrace, as a waste, and as a curse. And all her towns will be everlasting sites of ruins.”^v

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.