Jeremiah 49:7-22

English Standard Version

Judgment on Edom

⁷Concerning ^(A)Edom.

Thus says the Lord of hosts:

^(B)“Is wisdom no more in ^(C)Teman?
    ^(D)Has counsel perished from the prudent?
    ^(E)Has their wisdom vanished?
⁸^(F)Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths,
    O inhabitants of ^(G)Dedan!
For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him,
    ^(H)the time when I punish him.
⁹^(I)If grape gatherers came to you,
    would they not leave ^(J)gleanings?
^(K)If thieves came by night,
    would they not destroy only enough for themselves?
¹⁰^(L)But I have stripped Esau bare;
    ^(M)I have uncovered his hiding places,
    and he is not able to conceal himself.
His children are destroyed, and his brothers,
    and his neighbors; and ^(N)he is no more.
¹¹^(O)Leave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive;
    ^(P)and let your widows trust in me.”

¹²For thus says the Lord: ^(Q)“If those who did not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, ^(R)will you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you must drink. ¹³^(S)For I have sworn by myself, declares the Lord, that ^(T)Bozrah shall become ^(U)a horror, a taunt, a waste, and a curse, and all her cities shall be perpetual wastes.”

¹⁴^(V)I have heard a message from the Lord,
    and an envoy has been sent among the nations:
^(W)“Gather yourselves together and come against her,
    and rise up for battle!
¹⁵For behold, I will make you small among the nations,
    despised among mankind.
¹⁶The horror you inspire has deceived you,
    and the pride of your heart,
you who live in the clefts of the rock,^[a]
    who hold the height of the hill.
Though you ^(X)make your nest as high as the eagle's,
    I will bring you down from there,
declares the Lord.

¹⁷^(Y)“Edom shall become a horror. ^(Z)Everyone who passes by it will be horrified ^(AA)and will hiss because of all its disasters. ¹⁸^(AB)As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their ^(AC)neighboring cities were overthrown, says the Lord, ^(AD)no man shall dwell there, ^(AE)no man shall sojourn in her. ¹⁹^(AF)Behold, ^(AG)like a lion coming up from ^(AH)the jungle of the Jordan against a perennial pasture, I will suddenly make him^[b] run away from her. And I will appoint over her whomever I choose. ^(AI)For who is like me? ^(AJ)Who will summon me? ^(AK)What shepherd can stand before me? ²⁰Therefore hear the plan that the Lord has made against ^(AL)Edom and the purposes that he has formed against the inhabitants of ^(AM)Teman: ^(AN)Even the little ones of the flock shall be dragged away. Surely their fold shall be appalled at their fate. ²¹At the sound of their fall ^(AO)the earth shall tremble; the sound of their cry shall be heard at the Red Sea. ²²Behold, ^(AP)one shall mount up and fly swiftly like an eagle and spread his wings against ^(AQ)Bozrah, and the heart of the warriors of Edom shall be in that day like the heart ^(AR)of a woman in her birth pains.”