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Jeremiah 49:10-21 New King James Version (NKJV)

10. But I have made Esau bare;I have uncovered his secret places,And he shall not be able to hide himself.His descendants are plundered,His brethren and his neighbors,And he is no more.

11. Leave your fatherless children,I will preserve them alive;And let your widows trust in Me.”

12. For thus says the Lord: “Behold, those whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunk. And are you the one who will altogether go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you shall surely drink of it.

13. For I have sworn by Myself,” says the Lord, “that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. And all its cities shall be perpetual wastes.”

14. I 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.

16. Your fierceness has deceived you,The pride of your heart,O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock,Who hold the height of the hill!Though you make your nest as high as the eagle,I will bring you down from there,” says the Lord.

17. “Edom also shall be an astonishment;Everyone who goes by it will be astonishedAnd will hiss at all its plagues.

18. As in the overthrow of Sodom and GomorrahAnd their neighbors,” says the Lord,“No one shall remain there,Nor shall a son of man dwell in it.

19. “Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the floodplain of the JordanAgainst 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 who is like Me?Who will arraign Me?And who is that shepherdWho will withstand Me?”

20. Therefore 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 draw them out;Surely He shall make their dwelling places desolate with them.

21. The earth shakes at the noise of their fall;At the cry its noise is heard at the Red Sea.

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