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For I will suddenly make him run away from it,

And whoso is chosen, him will I appoint over it;

For who is like Me? and who will appoint Me a time?

And who is that shepherd that will stand before Me?

²⁰Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord,

That He hath taken against Edom;

And His purposes, that He hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman:

Surely the least of the flock shall drag them away,

Surely their habitation shall be appalled at them.

²¹The earth quaketh at the noise of their fall;

There is a cry, the noise whereof is heard in the Red Sea.

²²Behold, he shall come up and swoop down as the vulture,

And spread out his wings against Bozrah;

And the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day

Shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

²³Of Damascus.

Hamath is ashamed, and Arpad;

For they have heard evil tidings, they are melted away;

There is trouble in the sea;

It cannot be quiet.

²⁴Damascus is waxed feeble, she turneth herself to flee,

And trembling hath seized on her;

Anguish and pangs have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.

²⁵'How is the city of praise left unrepaired,

The city of my joy?'

²⁶Therefore her young men shall fall in her broad places,

And all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day,

Saith the Lord of hosts.

²⁷And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus,

And it shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.

²⁸Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote.

Thus saith the Lord:

Arise ye, go up against Kedar,

And spoil the children of the east.

²⁹Their tents and their flocks shall they take,

They shall carry away for themselves their curtains,

And all their vessels, and their camels;

And they shall proclaim against them a terror on every side.

³⁰Flee ye, flit far off, dwell deep,

O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the Lord;

For Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you,

And hath conceived a purpose against you.

³¹Arise, get you up against a nation that is at ease,

That dwelleth without care, saith the Lord;

That have neither gates nor bars,

That dwell alone.

³²And their camels shall be a booty,

And the multitude of their cattle a spoil;

And I will scatter unto all winds them that have the corners polled;

And I will bring their calamity from every side of them, saith the Lord.

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