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Jeremiah 49
⁹ "If grape gatherers came to you, Would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came by night, They would destroy only until they had enough.
¹⁰ "But I have stripped Esau bare, I have uncovered his hiding places So that he will not be able to conceal himself; His offspring has been destroyed along with his relatives And his neighbors, and he is no more.
¹¹ "Leave your orphans behind, I will keep them alive; And let your widows trust in Me."
¹² For thus says the Lord, "Behold, those who were not sentenced to drink the cup will certainly drink it, and are you the one who will be completely acquitted? You will not be acquitted, but you will certainly drink it.
¹³ For I have sworn by Myself," declares the Lord, "that Bozrah will become an object of horror, a reproach, a ruin and a curse; and all its cities will become perpetual ruins."
¹⁴ I have heard a message from the Lord, And an envoy is sent among the nations, saying, "Gather yourselves together and come against her, And rise up for battle!"
¹⁵ "For behold, I have made you small among the nations, Despised among men.
¹⁶ "As for the terror of you, The arrogance of your heart has deceived you, O you who live in the clefts of the rock, Who occupy the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as an eagle’s, I will bring you down from there," declares the Lord.
¹⁷ "Edom will become an object of horror; everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss at all its wounds.
¹⁸ Like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah with its neighbors," says the Lord, "no one will live there, nor will a son of man reside in it.
¹⁹ Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan against a perennially watered pasture; for in an instant I will make him run away from it, and whoever is chosen I shall appoint over it. For who is like Me, and who will summon Me into court? And who then is the shepherd who can stand against Me?"