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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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