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49.4
JEREMIAH
- 4Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys,
- Thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter?
- That didst trust in thy treasures:
- 'Who shall come unto me?'
- 5Behold, I will bring a terror upon thee,
- Saith the Lord God of hosts,
- From all that are round about thee;
- And ye shall be driven out every man right forth,
- And there shall be none to gather up him that wandereth.
- 6But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the children of Ammon,
- Saith the Lord.
7Of Edom.
- Thus saith the Lord of hosts:
- Is wisdom no more in Teman?
- Is counsel perished from the prudent?
- Is their wisdom vanished?
- 8Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep,
- O inhabitants of Dedan;
- For I do bring the calamity of Esau upon him,
- The time that I shall punish him.
- 9If grape-gatherers came to thee,
- Would they not leave some gleaning grapes?
- If thieves by night,
- Would they not destroy till they had enough?
- 10But I have made Esau bare,
- I have uncovered his secret places,
- And he shall not be able to hide himself;
- His seed is spoiled, and his brethren,
- And his neighbours, and he is not.
- 11Leave thy fatherless children, I will rear them,
- And let thy widows trust in Me.
12For thus saith the Lord: Behold, they to whom it pertained not to drink of the cup shall assuredly drink; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink. 13For I have sworn by Myself, saith the Lord, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
- 14I have heard a message from the Lord,
- And an ambassador is sent among the nations:
- 'Gather yourselves together, and come against her,
- And rise up to the battle.'
- 15For, behold, I make thee small among the nations,
- And despised among men.
- 16Thy terribleness hath deceived thee,
- Even the pride of thy heart,
- O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock,
- That holdest the height of the hill;
- Though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle,
- I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord.
- 17And Edom shall become an astonishment;
- Every one that passeth by it
- Shall be astonished and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
- 18As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah
- And the neighbour cities thereof, saith the Lord,
- No man shall abide there,
- Neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
- 19Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan
- Against the strong habitation;
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