Jeremiah 49:14–22

^14xI have heard a message from the Lord,

And an ambassador has been sent to the nations:

“Gather together, come against her,

And rise up to battle!

¹⁵“For indeed, I will make you small among nations,

Despised among men.

¹⁶Your fierceness has deceived you,

The ^ypride of your heart,

O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock,

Who hold the height of the hill!

^zThough you make your ^anest as high as the eagle,

^bI will bring you down from there,” says the Lord.

¹⁷“Edom also shall be an astonishment;

^cEveryone who goes by it will be astonished

And will hiss at all its plagues.

^18dAs in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah

And their neighbors,” says the Lord,

“No one shall remain there,

Nor shall a son of man dwell in it.

¹⁹“Behold, ^ehe shall come up like a lion from ^fthe ⁷floodplain of the Jordan

Against the dwelling place 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 ^gwho is like Me?

Who will arraign Me?

And ^hwho is that shepherd

Who will withstand Me?”

²⁰ⁱTherefore hear the counsel of the Lord that He has taken against Edom,

And His purposes that He has proposed against the inhabitants of Teman:

Surely the least of the flock shall ⁸draw them out;

Surely He shall make their dwelling places desolate with them.

^21jThe earth shakes at the noise of their fall;

At the cry its noise is heard at the Red Sea.

²²Behold, ^kHe shall come up and fly like the eagle,

And spread His wings over Bozrah;

The heart of the mighty men of Edom in that day shall be

Like the heart of a woman in birth pangs.