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Jeremiah 49 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷
Judgment on Edom
7 To Idumea. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Why is wisdom no more in Theman? Counsel is perished from the children: their wisdom is become unprofitable.
8 Fly and turn your backs, go down into the gulf ye inhabitants of Dedan: because I have brought the perdition of Esau upon him, the time of his visitation.
9 If the grape gatherers had come upon thee, they had not left a cluster: if thieves in the night, they had taken that should suffice them.
10 But I have discovered Esau, I have revealed his secrets, and he can not be concealed: his seed is wasted, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he shall not be.
11 Leave thy pupils: I will make them live: and thy widows shall hope in me.
12 For thus saith our Lord: Behold they whose judgement was not to drink the cup, drinking shall drink: and shalt thou be left as innocent? Thou shalt not be innocent, but drinking thou shalt drink.
13 Because I have sworn by my self, saith our Lord, that Bosra shall be into desolation, & into reproach, and into a desert, and into malediction: and all her cities shall be into everlasting desolations.
14 I have heard a bruit from our Lord, & a legate is sent to the Nations: Gather your selves together, and come against her, and let us rise up into battle.
15 For behold I have made thee a little one in the Gentiles, contemptible among men.
16 Thine arrogancy hath deceived thee, and the pride of thy heart: which dwellest in the caves of the rock, and endeavourest to apprehend the height of the hill. When thou shalt exalt thy nest as an eagle, thence will I bring thee down, saith our Lord.
17 And Idumea shall be desolate: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, & shall hiss upon all the plagues thereof.
18 As Sodom is overthrown and Gomorrha, and her neighbours saith our Lord: there shall not a man dwell there and there shall no son of man inhabit it.
19 Behold as a lion he shall come up from the pride of Jordan, to the strong beautifulness: because I will make him run suddenly to her: & who shall be a chosen one whom I may appoint over her? For who is like to me? And who shall abide me? And who is this Pastor that can resist my countenance?
20 Therefore hear ye the counsel of our Lord, which he hath taken concerning Edom: and his cogitations, which he hath thought concerning the inhabitants of Theman: If the little ones of the flock shall not cast them down, if they shall not destroy their habitation with them.
21 At the voice of their ruin the earth is moved: the cry of their voice is heard in the Red sea.
22 Behold he shall come up as an eagle, & fly out: and he shall spread his wings over Bosra: and the heart of the strong of Idumea shall be in that day, as the heart of a woman in travail.
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